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More than 1,000 employees at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center seek to unionize, following in the footsteps of Albany's nurses who voted to unionize in 2018, according to the Times Union.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital and its registered nurses have resolved allegations related to unionization efforts, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events after May 21.

The union representing nurses and other healthcare professionals at Paramus, N.J.-based Bergen New Bridge Medical Center has reached a contract with the hospital's new operators, according to northjersey.com.

Four thousand mental health clinicians and healthcare professionals at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente facilities plan to strike starting on June 11 over behavioral healthcare access, the union that represents them announced.

Many healthcare leaders today know that labor is the leading cost driver in the industry – the cost of healthcare staff turnover is estimated to be 38% of annual salary expense per employee.

Toledo, Ohio-based Mercy Health-St. Vincent Medical Center's unionized technical workers and support staff voted June 2 to end their strike against the hospital, according to The Blade.

More than 1,300 nurses in San Francisco's healthcare system are putting pressure on the city to remedy chronic nurse understaffing, they told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Registered nurses are holding informational pickets May 28 outside Arizona, California and Florida hospitals owned by Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, the union representing them announced in a news release.

Hospital workers from Pittsburgh-based UPMC will strike May 28, the same day the board of UPMC Presbyterian/Shadyside meets for its annual public meeting at UPMC Montefiore in Pittsburgh, according to radio station WESA.