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Unionized workers at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Ore., have reached two-year contracts with hospital management, according to The Register-Guard.

The union representing nurses at University of Chicago Medicine has called a one-day strike beginning at 7 a.m. Sept. 20, a hospital administrator confirmed Sept. 9.

Registered nurses at Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, Mass., have filed unfair labor practice charges at the U.S. National Labor Relations Board's Boston office against Dallas-based Steward Health Care, according to the union that represents them.

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.

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. 

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.