Members of Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania began a five-day strike Feb. 17 at Geisinger's Luzerne County facilities in Pennsylvania, union and health system spokespeople confirmed to Becker's.
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Members of the United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals have approved their first labor contract with Michigan Medicine's clinical division, Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health.
Providence has warned striking nurses in Oregon that they could risk losing their healthcare benefits if the walkout does not end by the end of the month.
Oregon state Rep. Travis Nelson, BSN, RN, has introduced legislation requiring a hospital to report the cost for replacement workers during a strike, NBC affiliate KGW reported Feb. 11.
SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania workers at UPMC Washington Hospital have approved a new labor contract with management, according to union and hospital statements shared with Becker's Feb. 12.
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Providence is entering its fifth week of strikes at facilities in Oregon, as multiple bargaining units represented by the Oregon Nurses Association remain without ratified labor contracts.
Members of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania are set to begin a five-day strike Feb. 17 at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre.
Nurses at Legacy Emanuel, Randall Children's Hospital, and Good Samaritan Hospital, all part of Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health, have voted to join the Oregon Nurses Association.
Members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, began their second strike Feb. 5 at University Medical Center in New Orleans, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's.
Hospitalists and palliative care physicians from Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, represented by the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, have reached a tentative agreement with Providence Oregon, according to Feb. 5 news releases shared with Becker's.