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Community organizers rallied Feb. 29 over a lack of jobs at Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital, according to a New Haven Register report.

The United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, which was recently dropped at Corona (Calif.) Regional Medical Center, has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against the hospital, according to a report from The Press-Enterprise.

Nurses at Coupeville, Wash.-based Whidbey General Hospital, represented by the Washington State Nurses Association, have reached a tentative contract agreement with management, according to a Whidbey News-Times report.

Employee engagement is critical to an organization's growth and survival. Hospitals and health systems realize that a disengaged workforce can negatively impact an organization's productivity, efficiency and quality of care.

About 200 workers and members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021 picketed outside San Francisco General Hospital Feb. 25, calling on the hospital to hire more nurses, according to a Mission Local report.

New Jersey nurses continue to show their opposition to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield's OMNIA plans and alliance.

A worker at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., claims she was fired over her support for a ballot initiative that would cap compensation for the hospital's executives at $250,000, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

The Cleveland Clinic Louis Stokes Internship program, a newly established summer internship, will offer 100 high school freshman experience in non-clinical areas of healthcare, according to Crain's Cleveland Business.

Nurses aides, represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, and their supporters are slated to protest Feb. 25 in front of Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Hospital, according to a report from The Salinas Californian.

Sixty percent of new nurses quit their first job within the first six months due to the behavior of their co-workers, and nearly 50 percent of nurses believe that they will experience bullying at some time in their careers, according…