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Two labor unions have pledged to derail a plan to replace the District of Columbia's only public hospital on the Southeast Side unless its members can keep their jobs and union contract, Bloomberg Law reports.

Healthcare workers at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., have approved a new three-year contract agreement, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Nurses at MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa, have authorized their bargaining committee to call a strike and rejected MercyOne's most recent contract offer, according to the Sioux City Journal.

Nurses at Astria Health's hospital in Yakima, Wash., are urging a bankruptcy court judge to reconsider the hospital's closure, according to the union that represents them.

Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center seeks to dismiss a union lawsuit accusing the hospital of federal human trafficking law violations linked to its program to recruit nurses from the Philippines to work in the hospital, according to the Albany Business Review.

Workers at three Providence hospitals in Washington state reached tentative agreements Jan. 8 with hospital management, according to the union that represents them.

Registered nurses have filed an opposition in bankruptcy court alleging that Verity Health System is failing to follow California laws regarding its plans to close a 366-bed Los Angeles hospital. 

Nurses at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., have reached a tentative agreement with hospital management, according to the union that represents them.

About 13,000 nurses and other healthcare workers at Providence Health locations in Washington state have halted their strike notices.

Tens of thousands of nurses and other healthcare workers are moving closer to a strike at Providence facilities across Washington state, according to The Spokesman-Review.