The more than 700 nurses represented by the California Nurses Association at John Muir Medical Center in Concord, Calif., have a tentative new three-year contract, according to the San Francisco Business Times.
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Employees who are engaged are more likely to be in better health, eat well and exercise frequently than their disengaged counterparts, according to a report from the Gallup Business Journal.
Unionized nurses at Northside Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio, have planned a one-day strike for next Tuesday to protest unfair labor practices.
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and the 29 unions representing its employees are offering up to $500 bonuses to groups of workers who lose weight, lower their blood pressure, stop smoking and lower their cholesterol levels, according to a report in…
Valley Medical Center in Renton, Wash., plans to end its pension plans and replace them with a retirement plan including employee contributions, according to a Puget Sound Business Journal report.
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About 100 members of the Service Employees International Union Local 49 rallied Wednesday outside PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, Wash., over the healthcare benefits in a contract currently being negotiated between Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth and the union, according…
The following is a roundup of recent events pertaining to hospital-union relationships, including strikes, pickets and new contract agreements. All events were reported within the last month, beginning with the most recent.
Nevada (Mo.) Regional Medical Center has received a $49,000 grant from the Missouri Hospital Association to assist with healthcare employee recruitment and retention at the hospital, according to a Nevada Daily Mail report.
Here are six statistics on trends in the healthcare workforce in 2012, according to the "2013/14 Human Capital Effectiveness Report" from PriceWaterHouse Coopers.
Getting a hospital's employees — be they administrators or medical staff — to gel as a team and communicate effectively is the ideal situation, but can prove difficult: Healthcare reform has caused many workers' jobs to change, leading to stress,…