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Becker's Hospital Review has reported the following hospital-union events — including protests, contract agreements and legal issues — since Oct. 24.

A restrictive covenant is an agreement that prevents an employee from taking actions that could harm his or her current employer both during and after employment.

Nurses at North Bergen, N.J.-based Palisades Medical Center ratified a contract agreement with Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health after more than six months of negotiations, The Record reported.

The New Hampshire Labor Department cited Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., last week for 386 labor violations related to timekeeping issues and work restrictions for teenage staff, according to Valley News.

Nurses at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, Vt., overwhelmingly voted against forming a union, according to a VTDigger report.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has reached a three-year contract agreement with the union representing nurses and nurse practitioners.

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The National Labor Relations Board has found evidence to substantiate a union's claim that Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital tried to hinder organizing efforts, The Baltimore Sun reported.

Support staff at Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, will decide whether to authorize their union representatives to call a strike, The Blade reported.

Thousands of University of California unionized workers ended a three-day strike at UC medical centers on Oct. 25.