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Nurses at five Minneapolis-St. Paul hospital systems, represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association, have ratified a three-year contract agreement that includes across-the-board wage increases, according to a Star Tribune report.

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Local 1199, the union that represents about 175 workers at Taos (N.M.) Health Systems, has endorsed a proposal by Holy Cross Hospital in Taos for Taos County to increase property taxes to help pay for hospital facilities and services,, according…

More than 330 registered nurses at Drexel Hill, Pa.-based Delaware County Memorial Hospital voted to join the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report.

Johnson & Johnson will cut roughly 3,000 jobs within its medical devices unit over the next two years, aiming to reduce company costs by up to $1 billion, according to Reuters.

The Minnesota Nurses Association and five Twin Cities hospital systems have reached a tentative three-year contract agreement, according to a Pioneer Press report.

Richland, Wash.-based Kadlec Regional Medical Center management and its nurses, represented by the Washington State Nurses Association, have reached a tentative contract agreement, according to a Tri-City Herald report.

The 66 certified registered nurse anesthetists whose contracts were terminated by Warren, Mich.-based St. John Providence Health System remain out of their jobs since rejecting the nonprofit health system's plan to outsource them to PSJ Anesthesia, a new outside contractor,…

The Service Employees International Union, which represents about 650 nonclinical workers at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, plans to seek a wage increase as the union prepares for its first contract negotiations since St. Louis-based SSM Health purchased the…

Hospitals are increasingly looking to hire nurses with bachelor's degrees, and recently licensed RNs are less likely to be employed by a hospital than their older counterparts — these are just some of the findings from the RN Work Project,…