The threat of a nationwide strike has been withdrawn after Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and unions representing its workers reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract, Kaiser announced Sept. 25.
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Nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center returned to work at 7 a.m. Sept. 25 after their strike, and more negotiations are scheduled, according to the Chicago Tribune.
About 4,500 Kaiser Permanente workers in the healthcare giant's Washington, D.C., region have voted to empower their bargaining team to call a nationwide strike beginning Oct. 14, a union representative told TV station WJZ.
The union representing nurses at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., have called off an Oct. 3 strike after reaching a tentative contract agreement with hospital management, according to the Minnesota Nurses Association.
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Nurses at Tenet hospitals in Florida, California and Arizona went on strike Sept. 20, according to Miami Herald.
Nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center were not allowed to return to work Sept. 21 after their strike but will be able to do so Sept. 25, according to WLS-TV.
The University of Chicago Medical Center witnessed its first strike Sept. 20 as 2,200 nurses walked off the job.
Citing a breakdown in contract talks, University of Chicago Medicine is making final efforts to prepare for a one-day strike nursing strike, hospital officials said in a news release.
Kaiser Permanente optometrists, laboratory scientists, geneticists and home health therapists in Northern California have voted to authorize a "sympathy strike" to support more than 80,000 other Kaiser workers nationwide who are planning to walk off the job beginning Oct. 14,…