Nurses and healthcare workers at four hospitals operated by Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare hospitals held one-day strikes Sept. 3, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, confirmed to Becker’s. The walkouts covered more than 2,200…
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Primary care physicians and advanced practice providers at Phoenix-based Banner Health have voted to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, marking the first union among the system’s clinicians, according to a Sept. 2 news release from the…
Two unions sent University of Vermont Medical Center a cease-and-desist letter over how the Burlington hospital assigns staff to observe patients at risk of harming themselves, VTDigger reported Aug. 31. Representatives of the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals…
Registered nurses at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill., have petitioned for a union election, according to a filing with the National Labor Relations Board. The National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United filed the petition Aug. 24 with the board’s…
Seven in 10 Americans view a pension as better than a 401(k), according to WalletHub survey results published Aug. 31. The personal finance website polled more than 240 Americans online and normalized the data by gender and income to reflect…
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West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging its timekeeping practices resulted in hourly employees being underpaid, according to court documents obtained by Becker’s. Plaintiffs Jennifer Randolph, RN, who worked for UnityPoint for about 16…
More than 2,200 nurses and healthcare workers at four hospitals operated by Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare plan to strike in September across Illinois, California and Nevada. Seven notes: 1. One-day strikes are planned to run from Sept. 3-4 at Saint…
Workers at Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital have issued a formal strike notice with a target strike date of Sept. 11, SEIU District 1199 said in a statement shared with Becker’s. The bargaining unit covers close to 200 of the approximately…
Primary care physicians, physician associates and nurse practitioners at Corvallis, Ore.-based Samaritan Health Services‘ Samaritan Medical Group have petitioned for a union election with Northwest Medicine United, an AFT Healthcare affiliate. Four things to know: 1. The union filed a…
Primary care physicians and advanced practice providers at Banner Medical Group, part of Phoenix-based Banner Health, are voting on whether to join the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, according to National Labor Relations Board filings. Five things to know:…