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Employees at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will rally May 1 to raise awareness of what they say is excessive CEO pay and unfair labor practices at the hospital, the union that represents them announced.

Astria Regional Medical Center in Yakima, Wash., and Astria Toppenish (Wash.) Hospital, have reached new contracts with two unions representing hundreds of employees at the institutions, according to a Yakima Herald report.

One hundred nurses at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., part of Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health, have begun efforts to unionize, according to Crain's Detroit Business.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events — including protests, elections and contract agreements — after April 11.

One-hundred forty-four workers at a cancer research center's business office in Irwindale, Calif. have voted to join Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, the union announced.

The National Union of Healthcare Workers has released a cable TV commercial accusing Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente of delaying and denying mental healthcare.

Valencia, Calif.-based Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital and the union representing its registered nurses have reached a three-year contract to avert a strike, according to The Santa Clarita Valley Proclaimer.

Five former nurses are suing South Peninsula Hospital in Homer, Alaska, alleging that they were forced out of their positions based on age, according to radio station KBBI.

Indiana (Pa.) Regional Medical Center and the union representing 380 registered nurses and nurse anesthetists are accusing each other of unfair labor practices as a contract dispute between the parties continues, according to the Indiana Gazette.

Registered nurses at Valencia, Calif.-based Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital have issued a strike notice, according to radio station KHTS.