A group of emergency room physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and lead advanced practice clinicians at Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit has voted to join the Greater Detroit Association of Emergency Physicians, according to the National Labor Relations Board.

Care team recognition is an essential component of a broader workforce strategy, but many provider organizations have yet to fully deploy team recognition programs.

Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., have voted to authorize a strike, according to a hospital statement shared with Becker's July 11.

Nurses at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., have voted to join the District of Columbia Nurses Association, the union said in a news release on its Facebook page.

Members of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West plan to picket starting July 11 at 12 Tenet Healthcare facilities in California.

Members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East at 19 HCA Healthcare hospitals in Florida have approved a new three-year contract. 

Members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East at Dunkirk, N.Y.-based Brooks-TLC Hospital System recently approved a new three-year contract. 

Nurses at McLaren Lapeer (Mich.) Region Hospital have voted to ratify a new three-year contract, including wage increases averaging 19 percent across its lifetime. 

Nurses at Eleanor Slater Hospital, a public facility in Cranston, R.I., issued a vote of no confidence in leadership, The Providence Journal reports. 

Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association have approved a new 18-month contract agreement with Boston-based Tufts Medical Center.

Nurses who went on strike at three Ascension hospitals in Texas and Kansas are slated to return to their scheduled shifts beginning the morning of July 1.

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.