Workplace violence against healthcare workers remains a persistent problem nationwide. Several states have passed or introduced new or expanded legislation in 2026 aimed at protecting hospital workers, from prevention planning requirements to weapons prohibitions. Becker’s has reported on at least…
HR
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente spent more than $1 billion on temporary staffing and related costs to keep facilities running during a January–February nurses strike, the health system said in a statement to Becker’s. The walkout began Jan. 26, affecting about…
Members of the Illinois Nurses Association at Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., have sued St. Louis-based Ascension and Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare, alleging chronic understaffing caused emotional distress and unsafe working conditions for nurses, according to a June…
The National Labor Relations Board ruled June 3 that Medford, Ore.-based Asante unlawfully refused to recognize and bargain with a union that healthcare workers at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center voted to certify in 2023. A three-member panel of the…
Nurses represented by Health Professionals and Allied Employees Local 5105 have ratified a new three-year labor agreement with Virtua Mount Holly (N.J.) Hospital. The union represents nearly 850 nurses at the 383-bed facility, according to a union news release shared…
Advertisement
The IAM Healthcare Union is challenging the results of mail-in union representation elections involving pharmacy technicians at two University of Kansas Health System locations: its 39th Street main campus in Kansas City, Kan., and a specialty pharmacy in the Southlake…
Registered nurses at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago plan to hold a one-day strike June 11, according to National Nurses United. The union said in a June 1 news release that nurses are striking over alleged retaliation against…
Hospitalists with Swedish Medical Group voted to join Northwest Medicine United, AFT Local 6552, becoming the first physicians in the Renton, Wash.-based Providence system to unionize in the state, the union said May 26 in a news release shared with…
Union-represented health unit coordinators reached a tentative labor agreement May 22 with Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minn., days before workers were scheduled to begin a three-day strike May 27, according to a news release from SEIU…
Four current and former employees at Phoenix-based Banner Health are suing the system, alleging the organization failed to oversee management and pricing of voluntary insurance benefits, according to court documents. The lawsuit centers on Banner Health Master Health and Welfare…