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More than 500 unionized workers at Providence Tarzana (Calif.) Medical Center plan to strike Aug. 16 over wages, staffing and what they say are unfair labor practices.

Federal officials have proposed a rule that would prohibit the automatic deduction of union dues for home health aides who receive paychecks from Medicaid, reports NPR.

Healthcare workers are putting in more hours per week than ever before, according to newly released data, signaling potentially greater use of overtime in the face of continuing workforce shortages.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is urging the University of Vermont Medical Center Board of Trustees to be more involved in contract negotiations between management and the union representing about 1,800 registered nurses, nurse practitioners and licensed practical nurses.

Rhode Island Hospital in Providence and the union representing workers there are accusing each other of unfair labor practices amid contract negotiations, according to WPRO.

AFT Vermont, the parent of the union representing 1,800 nurses at University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, is divesting its funds from New England Federal Credit Union to put pressure on the hospital's board, which includes two bank board…

Through Obama-era insurance reforms, hospitals and health systems were promised increased volume-for-unit rate discounts.

Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan and the union representing 2,400 nurses, therapists, technologists and other professionals at Rhode Island and Hasbro Children's hospitals in Providence continue to negotiate a new contract.

Unionized workers at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence picketed two days before the latest planned negotiations with the hospitals' parent system, Providence-based Lifespan, according to the  Providence Journal. 

The National Labor Relations Board ruled Aug. 6 that Pittsburgh-based UPMC unlawfully prohibited off-duty workers from unionization efforts, according to a Bloomberg BNA report.