Attending physicians across the University of California system are moving to form a union with SEIU Doctors United, in what the union describes as the largest unionization effort of attending physicians in the United States. According to a July 20…
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A jury has awarded $105,000 in a sex discrimination case alleging a male surgical technician at an Arkansas hospital was blocked from performing job duties and ultimately forced to resign because of his sex. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity…
About 500 employees at Merrimack Health Lawrence (Mass.) Hospital have joined 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Five things to know: 1. The employees include nurse’s aides, phlebotomists, housekeepers, transport workers, pharmacy technicians and radiology aides, according to a July 24…
Members of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pa., began a five-day strike July 27, the union’s first since 2004. Six things to know: 1. The strike involves 950 workers at a 260-bed acute care…
The National Labor Relations Board has overruled the objections of St. Louis-based SSM Health seeking to overturn a union election in which registered nurses at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, Wis., voted June 11 to join SEIU Wisconsin, according to…
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Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, reached a tentative agreement July 15 with the University of California covering approximately 6,400 interns, residents and fellows across the UC Health system. The…
Leaders at hospitals with union representation are approaching labor negotiations in an environment in which familiar issues such as pay and staffing remain central, while AI is reshaping what is discussed at the table. Healthcare labor activity remains elevated. Becker’s…
Five security officers at Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network are accusing the health system of failing to pay them for all hours worked, alleging the system manipulated timecards to avoid overtime payments for working through meal breaks, according to…
Employees of Sterling, Ill.-based CGH Medical Center ratified their first union contract July 13-15 after five years of negotiations with hospital management, according to a release from AFSCME Council 31. Workers first organized their union in 2019 and received certification…
Registered nurses and resident physicians at San Francisco-based UCSF Health rallied outside a UC Regents meeting July 15, calling on hospital leadership to address what they described as a patient safety crisis driven by emergency department boarding and unsafe staffing.…