About 50 employees blocked traffic in front of Kaiser Permanente's downtown Sacramento, Calif., office on Sept. 2 as part of a planned Labor Day protest in five cities, reports The Sacramento Bee.
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University of Chicago Medicine nurses have voted to authorize their union to strike, according to The Chicago Tribune.
Kaiser Permanente workers plan to protest on Labor Day in five cities as a potential nationwide strike looms that would affect more than 80,000 employees at Kaiser facilities, according to the unions that represent them.
Nearly 800 registered nurses at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa., have voted to unionize, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Registered nurses from Dignity Health hospitals in Southern California have called off a 10-day strike after reaching a contract agreement with their employer, according to the union that represents them.
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Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events in August.
Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health has reached a tentative contract agreement with its nurses, according to the Minnesota Nurses Association and health system.
Hundreds of nurses from Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based Vassar Brothers Medical Center held a protest Aug. 21 to publicize their concerns over safe staffing ratios, according to Spectrum News.
Hundreds of nurses picketed Aug. 20 to call attention to ongoing contract disputes with Essentia Health and St. Luke's in Duluth, Minn., according to The Duluth News Tribune.
More than 1,300 registered nurses from Dignity Health hospitals in Southern California plan to strike for 10 days beginning Aug. 30, unless a contract agreement is reached, according to the union that represents them.