HR

Nurses at Framingham (Mass.) Union Hospital have voted to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association. 

Chief human resources officers are seeing lower turnover rates than they did previously, Fortune reported Jan. 19. 

Support and administrative workers at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia have voted in favor of removing District 1199C, an affiliate of the national AFSCME union, as their bargaining representative.

Oxford, N.C.-based Granville Health System has fired a woman who was hired using a fake name and has been accused of defrauding medical facilities, NBC affiliate WRAL reported Jan. 15. 

Nurses have authorized a strike at ProMedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital in Adrian, Mich., part of Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica.

The National Labor Relations Board has certified the union election of physicians at Minneapolis-based Allina Health's Mercy Hospital over the health system's objections, the Minnesota Reformer reported Jan. 12.  

Four registered nurses and five other healthcare workers, who were fired from Prime Healthcare's St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, Calif., are seeking reinstatement.

The following hospital-union events have been reported by Becker's since Dec. 15, including strikes, unionization votes and contract approvals.

Members of the Hawaii Nurses Association are set to begin a seven-day strike Jan. 21 at Honolulu-based Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children.

Intermountain Health, a 33-hospital system based in Salt Lake City, has changed its loan repayment processes for caregivers in a region that includes Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Kansas and Wyoming.