More than 800 people working at Humana will lose their jobs, as the health insurer said Oct. 28 it will cut its payroll by 2 percent by the end of this year, according to the Courier Journal.
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Nurses at Chino (Calif.) Valley Medical Center plan to walk off the job amid contract negotiations, according to The Press-Enterprise.
Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events since Oct. 10.
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.
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.
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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.
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.