Health Care Union News for the Week of July 23 through July 30, 2022

HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• NNU: Coral Gables Hospital nurses vote to join nation’s largest RN union

• Union votes to accept Kern Medical contract offer

• Kaleida, unions ‘putting a full-court press on’ to reach contract for 6,300 workers as extension nears expiration

• Stressed NJ Nurses, Heroes Amid Pandemic, Get Mixed Results in Contract Talks

• Stressed NJ nurses, heroes amid pandemic, get mixed results in contract talks. Here’s why

• Severely short on nurses, Central Oregon hospital system quietly declares crisis

• Combating Provider Burnout and Stress With Music

• Florida Medical Center nurses to hold informational picket for safe staffing, patient health and safety

• Dignity hospital to striking workers: Return to work by end of month or risk losing benefits

• Maine Medical Center Nurses Secure Vote to Remove Unwanted MSNA Union Officials’ ‘Representation’

• Hundreds of nurses vote to get rid of union at Mayo Clinic hospital in Mankato...First time workers won't have union representation in more than 70 years...

• Nurses at Lawrence General to Picket on Thursday for staffing improvements

• Nurses prevail in contracts against greedy out-of-state hospital corporations

• Austin Catholic Hospital Nurses Seek to Unionize, Face Intense Union Busting

• Labor union sees breakthrough in contract talks with Kern Medical

• Nurses vote on getting rid of union at Mayo Clinic’s Mankato hospital

• WSWS: How Left Voice and the DSA assist the union bureaucrats in selling out the Michigan Medicine nurses’ contract fight

• Nurses Ratify Contract at EL City Hospital

• Kern Medical labor contract faces union vote this week

• Mohawk Valley Health System, CWA & UFCW Ink New Deal

• Confluence Health inks first post-pandemic nursing contract; includes standard-setting pay

• Workers at St. Francis Hospital in Milwaukee march on the boss, demand payment of overdue raises

• Maine Medical Center RNs to vote on decertifying union...FLASHBACK: Maine Medical Center nurses call for better working conditions...

• Rural hospitals struggle to maintain obstetrics services

• UMass physicians OK 1st contract

• A California Hospital Proposing a $15M Contract to Hire Strike Replacements

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