Registered nurses with Cook County Health and Hospitals System in Chicago, along with community supporters, will picket John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in Chicago today.
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Roughly 1,200 service and technical workers at Pittsburgh-based Allegheny General Hospital have voted to join SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, the state's largest healthcare union, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times.
Communications Workers of America, a union that represents thousands of workers in the Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health System, is looking at the system's financial strengths and weaknesses as it prepares for future contract negotiations, according to The Buffalo News.
Thousands of nurses from the New York State Nurses Association have authorized a strike at multiple leading New York City hospitals if contract negotiations with management break down in the near future, according to Bloomberg.
Frontline workers — patient intake coordinators, medical assistants, certified nursing assistants and dietary service staff, for example — are the face of hospitals and health systems, yet executives may find it difficult to engage and connect with these workers.
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Officials from Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa., and East Stroudsburg, Pa.-based Pocono Health System have said no jobs are expected to be lost during their pending merger, according a report from the Pocono Record.
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Caregivers at Springfield, Ore.-based Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend and Eugene, Ore.-based Sacred Heart Medical Center University District have voted to unionize, according to The Register-Guard.
Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Hospital on Thursday ratified a five-year contract with nurses of the California Nurses Association.
Women continue to outnumber men in nursing nationwide. Approximately nine percent of the professionally active nurse workforce in the U.S. is male, according to March 2015 data from The Kaiser Family Foundation.