Nurses at Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg, Pa., could strike Feb. 1 in protest to what their union describes as "dangerous staffing levels and critical patient safety concerns," according to a report by The Morning Call.
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The Service Employees International Union Local 49, Oregon's largest union, is asking that hospital workers be paid more and that hospitals in the state "be a source of high-quality care and high-quality jobs."
Gallipolis, Ohio-based Holzer Health System has formed a police department for its Gallipolis and Jackson hospitals and the Meigs Emergency Facility in an effort to ramp up security and ensure safety, according to My Daily Sentinel.
Union nurses are protesting changes at Newton (Ma.)-Wellesley Hospital after officials cut a nurse from each shift in the emergency room earlier this month, according to the Boston Business Journal.
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United have announced that they have reached a tentative three-year contract agreement for 18,000 California RNs who work at Kaiser hospitals and clinics, avoiding a scheduled nurses' strike.
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University of Chicago Medicine nurses are set to vote Jan. 29 on whether to strike, their union said in a Chicago Tribune report.
SEIU-Healthcare Workers West, a hospital and healthcare union with more than 150,000 members, has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National labor Relations Board against Los Altos Hills, Calif.-based Daughters of Charity Health System and its CEO, Robert Issai.
Psychologists, therapists, psychiatric nurses and social workers affiliated with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente walked out Monday, beginning a weeklong strike to protest what they consider insufficient staffing.
The healthcare industry contributed 34,000 of the overall 252,000 new jobs that were added in the U.S. last month, according to the most recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A new survey from CareerBuilder shows that healthcare employers are adding employees and increasing their pay in 2015, according to a news release on the survey.