Job seekers have greater access to information on compensation today than in years past, with salary ranges appearing on nearly half of the jobs posted on one search site. 

Operation Nightingale — the Justice Department initiative that discovered more than 7,600 fraudulent diplomas allowed unqualified purchasers to practice as nurses — shocked HHS, the FBI and medical professionals nationwide. 

On March 3, the Region 6 office of the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Pittsburgh-based UPMC and one of its subsidiaries, UPMC Altoona (Pa.), over allegations related to the termination of an agency nurse.

Registered nurses at Adventist Health Lodi (Calif.) Memorial have voted to join the California Nurses Association, an affiliate of National Nurses United, The Sacramento Bee reported March 9. 

Registered nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph Hospital in Wichita, Kan., have voted to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United. 

Members of the Oregon Nurses Association have filed a class action lawsuit against Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health alleging wage theft and missed payments at its Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Ore., and St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, Ore., according to court documents shared with Becker's. 

Members of the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals approved a contract with Burlington-based University of Vermont Medical Center that includes immediate pay raises of 6.5 percent to 25.6 percent for most bargaining unit members.

The ruling in a case involving furloughed hospital employees in Michigan will make it harder for employers to include confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in severance agreements, mlive.com reported.

On March 4, nurses at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., voted to ratify a new contract that includes a commitment from the hospital to hire 1,350 registered nurses by 2025. 

Officials with the union representing workers affected by the proposed merger of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services are voicing opposition to the proposal and calling for involvement from South Dakota lawmakers and the state's attorney general, the Argus Leader reported March 3.  

Citing worker burnout and other challenges, a union seeks to reopen its master contract with 90 hospitals and nursing homes in the New York City area early, Politico reported March 2. 

A total of 15,000 nurses and other healthcare workers at HCA Healthcare-owned hospitals in Florida and Nevada have started bargaining to negotiate new contracts, their union announced March 2. 

Nurses at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus in San Francisco are raising awareness about their concerns regarding working conditions at the facilities, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Providence Women's Clinic and Providence Home Health and Hospice caregivers in Oregon seek to vote on union representation. 

Members of United Public Workers are entering the second week of their strike at three Maui Health hospitals in Hawaii.

Physicians, advanced practice providers and other caregivers within St. Charles Medical Group  have withdrawn their petition with the National Labor Relations Board for union representation.

From janitors to physicians, workers at Santa Clara (Calif.) Valley Healthcare System allege the health system has unsafe staffing practices that put patients and providers at risk. 

More than 900 diagnostic technologists at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine have joined a new union, according to mlive.com.

As resident physicians and fellows at Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania Health System seek to form a union, there are multiple factors that can dictate their path forward, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Feb. 24. 

Workers at several Twin Cities hospitals are calling for action after a recent survey found allegations of racism in the healthcare workplace, Sahan Journal reported Feb. 21.