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Members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, who went on strike twice over the past year at the Sutter Center for Psychiatry in Sacramento, Calif., have approved their first labor contract. 

Facing new considerations in on-demand and flexible staffing to national workforce expansion programs, we’ve learned that today’s hospital and health system leaders are in a tough spot with staff retention. In fact, the RN vacancy rate sits at 9.9% nationally.

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Health Professionals & Allied Employees members have approved a new labor contract with Hackensack Meridian Health to establish the first staffing ratios in the history of the system's North Bergen, N.J.-based Palisades Medical Center, according to a June 13 union…

Residents and fellow physicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore have voted to unionize with the Maryland chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, according to union and hospital statements shared with Becker's.

Hospitalists who work in Bellingham and Sedro-Woolley, Wash., have voted to join the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, according to a June 13 statement from the union, which was shared with Becker's.

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