Unionized UW Health nurses are issuing more than 100 forms with patient safety concerns to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to intensify their calls for the academic health system to make staffing changes.  

A group of per diem nurses at Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol, Pa., part of Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare, have voted to unionize.

Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions-represented employees have voted to approve a new four-year national labor contract following an October strike involving tens of thousands of workers in multiple states. Employees also approved their local collective bargaining deals.

A group of Massachusetts lawmakers and Boston officials are supporting efforts to provide unionized workers at Boston Medical Center with higher and more competitive pay.

Members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East at Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home in Gloversville, N.Y., have given their 20-day strike notice.

Members of UFCW 3000 are set to begin a dayslong strike Nov. 14 at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett (Wash.).

Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore have voted to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United.

Members of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania have approved a new three-year union contract with Pittsburgh-based Allegheny General Hospital.

Hospitalists at Legacy Health hospitals in Oregon and Washington will vote on whether to unionize.

Members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 began a weekslong strike Nov. 1 at five Kaiser Permanente locations in Washington and Oregon.

Members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals within Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health approved new one-year contract extension agreements.

University Medical Center in New Orleans is warning workers against bullying as registered nurses call on management to allow a union election.

Corporate boards of public companies are lacking people experts, like chief human resources officers, who offer expertise on talent management, recruitment and retention.

Kaiser Permanente Washington and SEIU Healthcare 1199NW have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract. 

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and representatives from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., have traded critical words this week amid a strike at the hospital, which began Aug. 4. 

Members of the Rochester Union of Nurses and Allied Professionals have approved a new labor contract with Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital.

Members of 1199SEIU have approved a new three-year contract with Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre, N.Y.

Santa Clara County in California and Valley Physicians Group, a union that represents more than 450 physicians in the county's health system, have settled the pending unfair labor practice charge VPG filed with the California Public Employee Relations Board alleging that hospital leaders threatened union members against striking last year.

From coast to coast, healthcare workers in the U.S. have participated in labor strikes this year, citing concerns about issues such as pay, staffing and recruitment. The strikes have involved workers from large health systems, including a walkout at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente that was deemed by unions as the largest healthcare worker strike in the U.S. Now the question remains: Is healthcare's era of strikes here to stay?

Members of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, AFT Local 5017, are set to begin a five-day strike Oct. 23 at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash., and PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, Wash., instead of the originally planned open-ended walkout, according to The Oregonian.