Service Employees International Union District 1199 held a press event Dec. 9, during which it said there are members who have not had their health insurance benefits restored since returning to work after a monthlong strike, the union confirmed to Becker's. 

About 300 healthcare workers at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Ore., are preparing to go back to work after a five-day strike at the hospital, according to the union that represents them. 

About 50,000 workers represented by local unions nationwide have approved a four-year contract with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente.  

As hospitals and health systems struggle with labor shortages, several turned to different recruitment and retention strategies.

About 300 workers at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Ore., will begin a five-day strike Dec. 6, according to the union that represents them.

Lansing, Mich.-based Sparrow Hospital reached a tentative agreement with the Professional Employee Council of Sparrow Hospital, a local affiliate of the Michigan Nurses Association, on a three-year contract, according to hospital and union statements released Dec. 3.

Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital and the Service Employees International Union District 1199 have reached a new contract, effectively ending a monthlong strike, according to union and hospital statements.

The following hospital-union agreements have been reported since Nov. 1:

Workers at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Ore., plan to strike for a second time starting in December, according to the union that represents them.

Amid contract negotiations, the union representing about 2,200 workers at Lansing, Mich.-based Sparrow Hospital is alleging the hospital has repeatedly violated federal labor law.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., is facing a potential fine if it does not either begin permanently closing inpatient behavioral health services that have been closed during a nurses strike, or immediately plan to reopen these services, according to a letter sent to the facility by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Watertown, N.Y.-based Samaritan Health reached an agreement with the New York State Nurses Association to raise wages for its unionized registered nurses by 14 percent, the health system announced Nov. 23.

Workers at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Mich., have authorized a strike.

At the beginning of 2022, Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System plans to offer a "pay on demand" option for nurses to receive their paychecks, Jessica Lewis, the health system's executive director of human resources, told the Sun Herald.

Nurses at University of Wisconsin Health in Madison have launched a social media campaign amid their quest for a union and collective bargaining rights, The Badger Herald reported Nov. 17.

Fired employees who were denied exemptions from Boston-based Mass General Brigham's COVID-19 vaccination mandate have lost a legal battle to preserve their jobs, Bloomberg Law reported.

A group of UPMC hospital workers in Pittsburgh walked off the job Nov. 18 over demands for fair pay, safer staffing, better working conditions, and unionization rights, according to a news release from organizers.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is preparing for a strike by potentially tens of thousands of workers in Northern California.

Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital said it received a signed temporary restraining order Nov. 17 that memorializes a previously issued ruling limiting activity of workers who have been on strike for two weeks.

Emergency departments at Kaiser Permanente's Northern California hospitals in Modesto and Manteca are not receiving ambulance patients while a strike continues, according to ABC affiliate KXTV and NBC affiliate KCRA.