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Black healthcare workers staged a demonstration June 26 at Sutter Health's Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., after a white nurse was accused of posting racist comments against the Black Lives Matter movement on her Facebook page, KNTV reports.

Employees at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Ore., are urging hospital administration to use federal relief money to bring back workers who were furloughed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Daily Astorian.

Mass General Brigham nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston are calling on the hospital to improve the safety of its shuttle buses by enforcing a capacity limit for nurses and other staff members.  

Citing staffing and safety concerns, registered nurses plan to strike for 10 days beginning June 26 at Riverside (Calif.) Community Hospital, according to the union that represents them.

Nurses who work at Amita Health Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., have issued a 10-day strike notice and could walk off their jobs as early as July 4, according to the union that represents them.

A regional director with the National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint alleging Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, N.J., took unfair actions against nurses during contract negotiations, NJ Advance Media reports.

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has reached a tentative contract agreement with about 300 nurses at Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin, N.J.

Nurses at Valencia, Calif.-based Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital held a rally June 20 to protest recent layoffs and call for more safety measures, reports radio station KHTS. 

Citing staffing and safety concerns, registered nurses at Riverside (Calif.) Community Hospital have issued a strike notice, according to the union that represents them. 

Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine and the union representing 1,300 of its interns, residents and fellows have reached a new three-year agreement.