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About 1,200 workers at NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., have voted to join the Service Employees International Union United Healthcare East, Local 1199, according to Newsday.

The threat of a nationwide strike has been withdrawn after Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and unions representing its workers reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract, Kaiser announced Sept.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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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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