Nurses at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., are exploring whether to join the New York State Nurses Association. On Sept. 24, nurses filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a…
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Members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals are set to begin a five-day strike Oct. 6 at Temple University Hospital Main Campus and Temple Women and Families Hospital in Philadelphia, with bone marrow transplant nurses and…
Resident physicians and fellows at one Chicago-based organization have ratified their first labor contract as members of the same union at another continue to negotiate with their health system. Physicians at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University — the nonprofit…
The union representing nurses at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare delivered a petition to health system leaders Sept. 17, highlighting their concerns amid ongoing contract negotiations. A Sharp HealthCare spokesperson told Becker’s that representatives received the petition from the Sharp Professional…
Registered nurses at HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital in Fort Walton Beach have voted in favor of unionizing. In a two-day vote, from Sept. 10-11, more than 65% of nurses voted to join National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United, according…
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Techs at UP Health System-Marquette, who are represented by Marquette Ancillary Staff and Technologists, part of the Michigan Nurses Association, ratified a new labor contract Sept. 11. The agreement includes 18.75% wage increases over the next four years and three…
Nurses are the backbone of the healthcare industry. They are truly our frontline heroes. Research shows that investing in nursing saves lives, but nursing shortages and high turnover continue to be a looming issue for the industry and a major concern for…
Nurses at UP Health System-Marquette, who are represented by the Michigan Nurses Association, have reached a tentative labor contract on Aug. 24. The nurses’ tentative agreement follows an Aug. 18 “practice strike” by union members. According to a joint news…
Henry Ford Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Mich., has reached a labor agreement with support services staff, the hospital confirmed in a statement shared with Becker’s. However, a scheduled Sept. 1 strike by the hospital’s nurses lies ahead. “We’re pleased…
Nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh have voted to unionize, in what SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania called the largest nurse organizing effort in Pennsylvania in at least a decade. The union filed a request for an election with the National…