Hundreds of healthcare workers at Doctors Hospital of Riverside (Calif.) are expected to strike Jan. 13, according to the union that represents them. 

Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., voted to ratify a new contract Jan. 3, officially ending a 301-day strike. However, there could be some tension as nurses who went on strike return to work and work alongside nurses hired to replace them during the walkout, according to the Telegram & Gazette.

Psychologists, social workers and therapists employed at Kaiser Permanente's Oakland and Richmond, Calif., clinics plan to strike Jan. 17 after they say the health system backtracked on making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday for all healthcare workers, including its mental health clinicians, according to the union that represents them.

What do Boeing, General Electric, Lowe’s and Walmart have in common? They are among a growing number of self-insured employers bypassing traditional benefit networks offered by insurers and instead contracting directly with health systems to deliver health care services to their employees.

Union leaders are seeking to remedy what they describe as a wage crisis for nurses at Community Medical Center in Missoula, Mont.

A national coalition of unions is petitioning a federal court to compel the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to adopt permanent COVID-19 protections for healthcare workers and keep a temporary emergency temporary standard for healthcare workers in place until that happens.

Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., have voted to ratify a new contract, officially ending a 301-day strike, according to union and hospital statements.

Permanent replacement nurses hired by Worcester, Mass.-based Saint Vincent Hospital during a strike have filed a petition to officially decertify the Massachusetts Nurses Association as the union representing nurses at the hospital, according to the Telegram & Gazette. 

Below are six hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking chief human resources officers in the last month.

Nurses at Worcester, Mass.-based Saint Vincent Hospital have agreed to stop picketing until the Jan. 3 vote on a labor deal, according to the union that represents them.

A nurses union has filed a grievance against Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, claiming the academic medical center is giving travel nurses scheduling priority over staff and/or clinic nurses, according to a letter to hospital nursing leaders, which was posted on Facebook.

Three years after forming a union, nurses at Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.-based NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital are urging hospital management to agree to a contract they say would help alleviate staffing issues at the facility, according to Spectrum News 1. 

Worcester, Mass.-based Saint Vincent Hospital and the Massachusetts Nurses Association have reached a tentative contract, paving the way for an end to a strike that has lasted nearly 300 days.  

A group of certified registered nurse anesthetists at Jeanes Hospital and Fox Chase Cancer Center, both part of Philadelphia-based Temple University Health System, have voted to unionize, according to the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals.

More than 350 healthcare workers at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch, Calif., have approved a new contract after going on strike twice earlier this year over concerns about staffing and working conditions, according to the union that represents them. 

Workers at Allegheny Health Network affiliate Warren (Pa.) General Hospital have approved a new three-year contract, according to the union that represents them. 

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released updated guidance Dec. 14 saying that a person diagnosed with COVID-19 can be considered to have a disability under certain circumstances. 

To help hospitals and health systems navigate workforce-related challenges, the American Hospital Association has released a snapshot of healthcare talent management trends and strategies.

Registered nurses from UPMC Altoona (Pa.) will launch a 24-hour protest Dec. 15 outside of UPMC headquarters in Pittsburgh to demand that the health system immediately address what they called a staffing crisis at their facility, according to the union that represents them.

Workers at Allegheny Health Network affiliate Warren (Pa.) General Hospital have submitted a 10-day strike notice amid contract negotiations, according to the union that represents them.