Unionized nurses at Chicago-based University of Illinois Hospital & Health Science System have agreed to extend their contract to Oct. 21 to continue talks, according to a Red Eye Chicago report.
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Nonunion healthcare workers have sustained consistently lower median weekly earnings than union workers from 2010 to 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, though weekly earnings fluctuated slightly for both union and nonunion healthcare workers over this time period.
Cleveland-based University Hospitals plans to buy a $12 million office building in Highland Hills, Ohio, and move 600 employees there by spring, according to a report from The Plain Dealer.
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Crozer-Keystone Health System's organized nurses gave hospital officials notice they will start a two-day strike Sept. 21, according to a Delaware County Daily Times report.
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Nearly 18 percent of newly licensed registered nurses leave their first nursing job within the first year, and roughly 34 percent leave within two years, according to a study in Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice.
The healthcare industry added 34,000 jobs last month, contributing to the nation's 142,000 new jobs in August, according to the most recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
After declaring an impasse on staffing, Santa Fe, N.M.-based Christus St. Vincent Regional Hospital has told a union representing nurses and technicians that face-to-face communication is over, according to a KOAT report.
Healthcare reform has hit the hospital industry on two fronts. For most hospitals, the primary concern has been the impact on the industry's business model and the need to reinvent that model as the focus of care shifts from volume…
Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services has filed a federal lawsuit against several employee unions, alleging the unions are using extortionist tactics to prevent it from purchasing Los Altos Hills, Calif.-based Daughters of Charity Health System.