Registered nurses at Houlton (Maine) Regional Hospital have signed a letter of no confidence in the hospital’s president and CEO, Jeff Zewe, RN, according to a union statement shared with Becker’s. The nurses, who are represented by the Maine State…
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Resident physicians and fellows at Philadelphia-based Temple University Health System and Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals have ratified their first labor contracts. The contracts cover approximately 2,200 physicians represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents who provide direct patient care…
The American Hospital Association filed an amicus brief with the National Labor Relations Board urging the board to preserve the 1989 Health Care Rule, which establishes eight mandatory types of bargaining units at acute-care hospitals. According to the July 29…
About 10,000 registered nurses represented by Teamsters Local 2024 have reached a tentative agreement with Corewell Health East on its first contract. Four things to know: 1. The agreement was reached after more than a year of bargaining, according to…
Attending physicians across the University of California system are moving to form a union with SEIU Doctors United, in what the union describes as the largest unionization effort of attending physicians in the United States. According to a July 20…
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A jury has awarded $105,000 in a sex discrimination case alleging a male surgical technician at an Arkansas hospital was blocked from performing job duties and ultimately forced to resign because of his sex. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity…
About 500 employees at Merrimack Health Lawrence (Mass.) Hospital have joined 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Five things to know: 1. The employees include nurse’s aides, phlebotomists, housekeepers, transport workers, pharmacy technicians and radiology aides, according to a July 24…
Members of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pa., began a five-day strike July 27, the union’s first since 2004. Six things to know: 1. The strike involves 950 workers at a 260-bed acute care…
The National Labor Relations Board has overruled the objections of St. Louis-based SSM Health seeking to overturn a union election in which registered nurses at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, Wis., voted June 11 to join SEIU Wisconsin, according to…
Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, reached a tentative agreement July 15 with the University of California covering approximately 6,400 interns, residents and fellows across the UC Health system. The…