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Nurses at Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, voted this month to remove National Nurses United as their exclusive representative.

The Illinois Nurses Association, which represents nurses at Ascension Saint Joseph-Joliet (Ill.), has reached a tentative new labor contract with the nurses' employer.

Physicians, physician associates and nurse practitioners at Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health's primary care clinics announced May 7 their efforts to unionize with the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association.

Members of the California Nurses Association have approved a new labor contract with Washington Hospital Healthcare System in Fremont, Calif.

Paid sick leave has expanded across the U.S. as more states pass laws related to the issue.

Resident physicians and fellows at the University of Chicago Medical Center voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local chapter of the Service Employees International Union.

HCA Healthcare faces a lawsuit alleging its Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health illegally kept pay from at least 1,000 employees, the Citizen Times reported May 6.

The National Labor Relations Board has asked a federal court to force Trinity Health Grand Haven (Mich.) Hospital, part of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, to recognize SEIU Healthcare Michigan as the bargaining agent of about 200 employees and to resume…

Resident physicians have filed dozens of grievances with New York City's public hospital system, alleging systemic understaffing that their union says leaves about 2,300 physicians at NYC Health + Hospitals chronically overworked.

HHS finalized a rule May 1 that updates protections against disability discrimination in healthcare.