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.
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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.
Reno, Nev.-based Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center has reached a three-year contract agreement with nurses, according to the Reno Gazette Journal.
UnitedHealthcare, the health insurance arm of UnitedHealth Group, laid off an undisclosed number of employees in Duluth, Minn., according to the Duluth News Tribune.
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Warren (Pa.) General Hospital and unionized workers have reached a new labor deal affecting 130 nurses, medical technologists, medical lab technicians and social workers, according to Erie News Now.
Unionized Santa Clara County workers in California have called for a strike beginning Oct. 2, according to The Mercury News.
Healthcare workers rallied outside Philadelphia-based Temple University Hospital Oct. 1 to protect their jobs amid contract negotiations, according to TV station WHYY.
Workers at Chicago-based Mount Sinai Hospital have voted to empower their bargaining team to call a strike if they are unable to reach an agreement with hospital management, according to the union that represents them.
A national teachers union leader is speaking out against how the University of Cincinnati Medical Center has treated its nurses, according to The Enquirer.