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The operator of Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence, R.I., has reached contracts with employees that include a provision for panic buttons, according to The Breeze.

Kaiser Permanente workers in California have voted to empower their bargaining team to call a nationwide strike that would affect more than 80,000 employees at Kaiser facilities, according to the unions that represent them.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente said it has offered a contract proposal to the unions representing more than 80,000 Kaiser employees.

Dignity Health nurses in Southern California have launched a series of protests about what they say are unsafe conditions at three facilities, according to the union that represents them.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events in July.

Eureka, Calif.-based St. Joseph Hospital nurses called for changes in contract language to address multiple instances of workplace violence at the facility, according to The Times-Standard.

Union leaders allege that Kaiser Permanente closed hospital cafeterias in California to interfere with workers voting on whether to empower their bargaining team to call a nationwide strike.

Kaiser Permanente workers will begin voting July 29 on whether to empower their bargaining team to call a nationwide strike that would affect more than 80,000 employees at Kaiser facilities, according to CBS San Francisco.

Nurses and other healthcare workers will participate in a rally July 26 to urge Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health to put "patients before profits," the unions representing them announced.

An unfair labor practice charge against the Michigan Nurses Association at Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Hospital has been withdrawn.