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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 is accusing Loretto Hospital in Chicago of violating federal labor law by refusing to furnish information that would highlight what nurses deem is a short-staffing crisis that threatens patient care.

Resident physicians and fellows at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., have approved a new labor agreement with hospital management. 

Healthcare systems and their Managed Services Providers (MSPs) stand at a critical juncture. The directive is straightforward—adapt, innovate, and take the lead. This moment presents an opportunity to transform how we manage our workforce. Simply getting by is no longer…

More than 1,300 nurses at Chicago-based UI Health, represented by the Illinois Nurses Association, voted overwhelmingly to authorize their union to call a strike. 

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Thousands of nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, voted on July 24 and 25 to authorize one-day strikes.

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health said it will appeal a decision by the National Labor Relations Board after a group of its East Market advanced practice providers voted to be represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association in collective bargaining. 

Two nurses at an Ascension hospital in Michigan have filed unfair labor practice charges against their local union, claiming union leaders threatened to terminate them and others if they did not agree to have dues deducted directly from their paychecks. 

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