Registered nurses and healthcare professionals at Fountain Valley (Calif.) Regional Hospital have voted to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers, according to a March 16 union news release.

Healthcare workers at Dunkirk, N.Y.-based Brooks-TLC Hospital System approved a new contract that includes a 10 percent wage increase, a one-time appreciation bonus and incentives to address staffing shortages, according to the union that represents them.

Registered nurses at 15 Sutter Health hospitals in Northern California will protest March 15 over what they say is the health system's refusal to adequately address staffing, workplace violence and pandemic readiness, according to the union that represents them. 

More than 200 nurses at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital in Kittanning, Pa., began a five-day strike March 13, representing the first strike at the hospital in more than two decades, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

An internal memo used to communicate the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada's plan to mandate overtime sparked pushback from nurses followed by expressions of remorse from the Las Vegas-based facility.

Six health systems are forming a human resources alliance to help tackle healthcare's top workforce challenges. 

The union representing more than 150 nursing home workers at Lewiston, N.Y.-based Ascension Living at Our Lady of Peace began a one-day strike March 9.

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Resident physicians at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington seek to form a local chapter with the Committee of Interns and Residents, according to union and hospital statements.

About 300 nurses at University of Southern California Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale have approved a contract agreement with hospital management, according to hospital and union statements. 

Nurses at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital in Kittanning, Pa., have submitted a strike notice to hospital management.

After previously denying end-of-year bonuses to unionized registered nurses at two Bassett Healthcare Network facilities in New York, Bassett will provide a one-time gratitude bonus to these workers, The Daily Star reported Feb. 28. 

Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., voted to keep their union and representation by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, according to Feb. 28 hospital and union statements.

Ascension Living at Our Lady of Peace workers in Lewiston, N.Y., have issued a 10-day strike notice to their employer. 

As employers prepare for workers to return to offices amid loosened COVID-19 restrictions, they can expect an array of feelings from workers, including excitement, anxiety and fear, experts told USA Today.

Front-line physicians at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care are demanding that the health system voluntarily recognize the Committee of Interns and Residents as their exclusive representative for collective bargaining.

In 2021, there were 265 work stoppages in the U.S. involving about 140,000 workers, and healthcare and social assistance workers comprised more than half of all workers involved in the strikes, according to a new "Labor Action Tracker" report by the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. 

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In the wake of a 10-month strike, nurses at Worcester, Mass.-based Saint Vincent Hospital are voting on whether to decertify the Massachusetts Nurses Association at the hospital, according to WBUR. 

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