HR

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labor practice charge against the Michigan Nurses Association at Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Hospital has been withdrawn.

Nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center will be holding an informational picket and rally July 22, according to a July 18 announcement from National Nurses United Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events after July 9.

Boston Medical Center and its nurses have settled on a labor deal, according to The Boston Globe.

Nurses at Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Hospital authorized a strike July 16 amid contract negotiations, according to the Mountain View Voice.

A majority of nurses and other employees voted to unionize in a two-day election July 11-12 at three medical facilities in the Kalispell Regional Healthcare system, according to The Daily Inter Lake.

More than 80,000 healthcare workers at facilities owned by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente are preparing to vote in July and August on whether to authorize their bargaining team to call a strike, according to the unions that represent them.

Some nurses filed an unfair labor charge July 9 against Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Hospital for allegedly interfering with workers' efforts to unionize, according to The Detroit News.