The following is a roundup of recent events pertaining to hospital-union relationships, including strikes, legal battles, rallies and new contract agreements. All events were reported since Sept. 1.
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Nurses at Select Specialty Hospital - Erie (Pa.) rallied Saturday for contract negotiations, according to WJET-TV.
While recent changes to the federal regulations that govern eligibility for overtime under The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) affect all employers, health care providers typically have been affected in a bigger way than most.
Out of its 400 new hires, 200 of Louisville-based KentuckyOne Health's new employees are nurses. The health system, which said it hopes to fill roughly 1,000 positions across the state, has indicated the hiring of hundreds of new workers and…
Striking Allina Health nurses voted Monday to reject a contract offer from their Minneapolis-based employer, thereby extending their open-ended walkout, reports the Star Tribune.
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Nurses at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister, Calif., have ratified a new four-year labor contract, according to BenitoLink.
The union representing more than 4,000 striking Allina Health nurses will use a different method Monday when nurses vote whether to accept a proposed three-year contract and end the weeks-long walkout, reports Star Tribune.
Roughly 50 nurses at Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital picketed Friday, calling for improved staffing levels at area hospitals, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report.
The National Labor Relations Board Office of General Counsel has decided to move forward with a consolidated labor complaint against Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, as well as the hospital operator's 38-hospital spinoff, Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health Corp., according to…
The union representing striking Allina Health nurses said the workers are slated to vote Monday on the Minneapolis-based health system's last offer, reports Star Tribune.