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Members of the Service Employees International Union at Las Palmas and Del Sol medical centers in El Paso, Texas, will receive pay increases under a new, recently approved contract, the El Paso Times reported June 28. 

About 500 additional workers from Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine have joined the United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals, American Federation of Teachers Local 6739, according to a health system statement shared with Becker's June 28.

Providence is asking Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to deny a request from the Oregon Nurses Association to investigate Providence for alleged unlawful use of professional strikebreakers. 

Members of Professional Resource for Nurses have approved a tentative agreement with Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Health. 

Nurses at three Ascension hospitals in Texas and Kansas began a one-day strike June 27.

Members of the California Nurses Association and its affiliate, Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union, have approved new three-year contracts at USC Arcadia (Calif.) Hospital.

Nurses and clinicians who began a five-day strike June 19 at Providence Portland Medical Center, Providence Seaside Hospital, and Providence Home Health and Hospice, all in Oregon, have returned to work.

Workers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland (Calif.) have approved new three-year contracts with management.

Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU voted to ratify a new contract for resident physicians at the Burlington-based University of Vermont Medical Center. 

Licensed practical workers and technical workers at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., have voted to join Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania, according to the union's Facebook page.