The nearly 13,000 unionized patient care technical employees who work in University of California healthcare facilities plan to take a strike vote this week, according to a report by The San Francisco Appeal.
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Sanford Health Bemidji (Minn.) and the Minnesota Nurses Association are meeting Thursday for the sixth time to attempt to reach a contract agreement, according to a Bemidji Pioneer report.
Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network is facing a federal lawsuit over alleged age discrimination, according to a report by The Express-Times.
There were about 4 million job openings on the last business day of January, and 616,000 were in healthcare and social assistance, according to the most recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
SEIU Healthcare PA is attempting to organize employees at the largest employer in the Pittsburgh region: UPMC.
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Hospitals lost 1,200 jobs in February and hospital employment is down by 10,000 over the last three months, according to the most recent seasonally adjusted numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Of healthcare and social assistance industry workers, 7.2 percent were members of unions in 2013, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A U.S. federal court judge has blocked Berkeley, Calif.-based Alta Bates Summit Medical Center's plans to restructure its nurse staffing model, in response to a request brought by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
Negotiations between Morgantown-based West Virginia University Hospitals and one of its unions fell through Monday, and union members could strike later this month, according to a report by The Daily Athenaeum.
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