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Johns Hopkins University graduate students announced their plans to form a union and demand better working conditions during a rally this week, The Baltimore Sun reported.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events — including protests and legal issues — on or after Sept. 13.

About 100 workers from UPMC facilities in Pittsburgh are expected to strike Oct. 4 to gain support for their goal of unionization, according to a Pittsburgh City Paper report.

It is a highly competitive recruitment climate for hospitals and health systems thanks to low unemployment and an increasing shortage of healthcare workers.

Unionized nurses at Burlington-based University of Vermont Medical Center have voted no confidence in the hospital's governing board and two top administrators, CEO John Brumsted, MD, and President and COO Eileen Whalen, RN, according to a WAMC report. 

Nurses at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine took their complaints of unfair labor practices to  the University of Michigan's governing board during its Sept. 20 meeting, the Detroit Free Press reported.

University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington has reached a tentative contract agreement with the union representing about 1,800 licensed practical nurses, registered nurses and nurse practitioners.

Registered nurses and Bangor-based Eastern Maine Medical Center have reached a tentative labor deal.

Healthcare workers in Northern California are speaking out against Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente's proposal to outsource landscaping.

Nurses at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine authorized their bargaining committee to call a strike.