About 4,000 mental health clinicians of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente are prepared to hold a five-day strike in November at more than 100 clinics and medical facilities statewide, the union that represents them announced.
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Workers have ratified a contract agreement between Wailuku, Hawaii-based Maui Health System and the union that represents about 470 of them, according to The Maui News.
Mount Sinai Hospital unionized healthcare staff joined Chicago Public Schools workers Oct. 19 as they continued their strike amid contract talks with city negotiators, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Fifty-seven thousand workers in California have ratified a four-year contract agreement with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, according to the union that represents them.
A union is accusing Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center of trafficking law violations related to its program to recruit nurses from the Philippines to work in the hospital.
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Mental health clinicians of Kaiser Permanente protested Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 what they called barriers to mental health access outside two of the healthcare giant's facilities in Oakland, Calif., and Los Angeles.
Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events in October.
Changing hospital working condition and consolidation are among the factors that may lead to even more nurse walkouts in Chicago and across the country, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Registered nurses at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Ill., have voted to unionize, according to a news release from the National Nurses Organizing Committee/ National Nurses United.
Workers at Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital picketed Oct. 2 to protest what they say is a push by hospital management to decertify recently unionized physician assistants, according to The Chief-Leader.