The negotiating process has become an obstacle to a contract agreement between Mayo Clinic Health System and the union representing 560 nurses its facility in Mankato, Minn., according to The Free Press.

The new labor contract ratified last month by University of Chicago Medical Center nurses guarantees important staffing changes as well as a salary increase, according to the union representing the 2,220 nurses on staff.

About 4,000 psychologists, mental health therapists and other medical professionals at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente have rescheduled a five-day strike that was postponed after the death of Kaiser Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson, the union that represents them announced. 

Nurses at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif., and UCSF Hellen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights in San Francisco held rallies this week on workplace violence prevention. 

Registered nurses at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, Calif., part of San Francisco-based Dignity Health, will hold an informational picket next week to raise awareness about what they say are reductions in nurse aides and bedside RN staff, according to the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses United.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events since Nov. 15.

Registered nurses at Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, N.J., began a one-day strike Nov. 26 amid contract negotiations, hospital and union officials confirmed.

Registered nurses at eight Tenet Healthcare hospitals in California have approved a master contract, according to the union that represents them.

University of Chicago Medical Center and the union representing about 2,200 of its nurses have reached a tentative agreement.

Healthcare workers went on strike Nov. 20 at four hospitals in Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health's Northern California region, according to the union that represents them.

University of Chicago Medical Center has closed its level 1 trauma center for adult and pediatric patients as it prepares for about 2,200 nurses to go on strike next week, medical center leaders announced.

University of Chicago Medical Center nurses should continue bargaining but cancel next week's strike for the safety of their patients, the Chicago Tribune editorial board argued in a Nov. 19 editorial. 

University of Chicago Medical Center is moving some patients to other hospitals as it prepares for about 2,200 nurses to go on strike next week, according to the Chicago Tribune, citing information from medical center leaders.

Hospital groups are urging the National Labor Relations Board to change standards governing the evaluation of employee conduct in a healthcare setting that violates a lawful employer rule, according to the American Hospital Association's AHA Today newsletter, which cites a friend-of-the-court brief.

Here are five updates on hospital strikes or planned strikes reported by Becker's Hospital Review in November.

About 2,200 nurses at University of Chicago Medical Center in Hyde Park have scheduled a second strike for Nov. 26, two days before Thanksgiving.

About 500 employees at Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna, Calif., and St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, Calif., will walk off the job Nov. 20, according to the Times-Standard.

University of California service and patient care technical workers began striking Nov. 13 over the alleged illegal outsourcing of jobs, according to the union that represents them.

About 4,000 psychologists, mental health therapists and other medical professionals at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente have postponed a five-day strike after the death of Kaiser Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson, the union that represents them announced.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events since Oct. 24.