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Nurses at Heritage Valley Beaver (Pa.) have nixed management's latest contract offer and will strike beginning Aug. 23, according to an Associated Press report published by CBS Pittsburgh.

Healthcare employment grew by 43,200 jobs in July, with hospitals contributing 17,100 of those, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' jobs report released Friday.

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Boston-based Steward Health Care System has signed a contract with the union representing about 5,000 of its hospital workers, The Boston Globe reports.

Minneapolis-based Allina Health and the union that represents 4,800 of its Twin Cities hospital nurses have still failed to reach a contract agreement since a one-week strike in June, according to a Star Tribune report.

A union representing workers at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has filed a formal complaint protesting the system's pending switch in food service vendors, alleging a conflict of interest involving a Mayo administrator, according to a Post-Bulletin report.

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