Unionized nurses at Northside Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio, have planned a one-day strike for next Tuesday to protest unfair labor practices.
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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.
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.
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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,…
The National Labor Relations Board has found that the Memorial Hospital of Salem County in Salem, N.J., violated national labor laws when it refused to bargain with the Health Professionals and Allied Employees union over changes in the dress code…
St. Luke's Lakeside Hospital in Montgomery, Texas, has employee engagement levels in the 100th percentile, according to a Houston Business Journal report.