Union representatives are challenging Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare over its decision to promote a nurse occupying a labor-designated seat on its oversight board to a management role just weeks later, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune.

Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United and hospital board members have approved a new four-year labor contract between the union and Salinas Valley Health Medical Center.

Registered nurses at Mass General Brigham's Salem (Mass.) Hospital have reached a tentative labor contract with management. 

Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents and George Washington University Hospital in Washington have reached a tentative labor agreement, averting a potential strike.

During an interactive session at Becker's 12th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, Shannon Peterson, Senior Vice President at Medicus Healthcare Solutions, led a panel discussion with health system leaders focused on addressing physician clinical gaps and workforce stabilization.

Nurses at Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol, Pa., part of Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare, have approved a new three-year labor contract after 15 months of negotiations.

Nurses and healthcare professionals at Lansing-based University of Michigan Health-Sparrow have voted to authorize a strike if management and the union representing them fail to reach an agreement. 

Persistent staffing shortages are challenging providers' ability to provide patient care effectively, efficiently, and sustainably. 

One-day strikes and other "fixed-duration strikes" — defined as those with a short duration and predetermined time limits — are common at hospitals.

Advanced practice providers at the University of Illinois Health system, part of the University of Illinois Chicago, are seeking to unionize.

Members of the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa initiated an open-ended strike Dec. 9 in Deer River, Minn.

Hospital workers approved a new contract with Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island in Providence, including 13% wage increases over two and a half years.

More than 1,000 nurses at Pittsburgh-based UPMC have signed an open letter urging the health system to make investments in its workforce. 

Nearly 5,000 nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals at nine Providence bargaining units represented by two unions have authorized strikes.

Hospital workers have reached a tentative labor agreement with Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island in Providence.

Healthcare workers at MultiCare Auburn (Wash.) Medical Center, including physical and occupational therapists, pharmacists and social workers, have reached a tentative agreement with Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System.

University of Michigan Health Plan through Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine will end after 2025. 

Members of Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa are set to begin an open-ended strike on Dec. 9 in Deer River, Minn.

Nurses at Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health hospitals are planning to form a union to address concerns over wages and staffing ratios.

Nearly 5,000 front-line healthcare workers represented by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare have approved their first labor contract, according to a joint news release shared with Becker's.