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Physicians who work at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Ore., have voted to join the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, a hospitalists union represented by AFT Healthcare and serviced by the Oregon Nurses Association.

Members of the New York State Nurses Association have reached a new contract with NYC Health + Hospitals/mayoral agencies and the city of New York. 

Service Employees International Union Local 521 has reached a tentative agreement on a successor contract with Santa Clara County in California.

Members of SEIU Healthcare Illinois began an open-ended strike July 31 over what they allege are substandard wages and the urgent need for safe staffing at Chicago-based Loretto Hospital.

Nurses at Confluence Health Hospital Mares Campus in Wenatchee, Wash., voted July 19 to join the Washington State Nurses Association.

Registered nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph and Ascension Via Christi St. Francis hospitals in Wichita, Kan., and Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas, are highlighting their concerns related to staffing and patient care in petitions to hospital management.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions have set a joint goal of hiring 10,000 new people for coalition-represented jobs this year. 

Members of Service Employees International Union Healthcare Illinois are taking various labor actions amid their contract negotiations with Chicago safety-net hospitals. 

Members of Service Employees International Union Healthcare Michigan plan to strike Aug. 4 at Trinity Health Grand Haven (Mich.) Hospital.

Members of United Steelworkers Local 4-200 are set to strike Aug. 4 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.