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Some Nurses Want Union At MV Hospital
July 8, 2024 // The vote taken earlier this week was 22 to 4 in favor of joining the Massachusetts Nursing Association union. Before the vote, the group of ambulatory nurses were the only ones from the hospital that were not part of a union.
Union ‘very surprised’ at jobs affected in OHSU layoffs
July 3, 2024 // These layoffs have been looming for weeks, spurred by an operating loss of $64 million for the fiscal year that ended Sunday. Jennie Olson, who both writes grants and contracts for OHSU and is the president of the AFSCME Local 328 which represents thousands of OHSU workers, told KOIN 6 News the number of layoffs could potentially rise to 500 members.
Tensions rise as Oregon nurses continue Providence picket
June 24, 2024 // When nurses expressed concerns that they would be turned away from work when they showed up to their shifts on Friday morning, Providence clarified it would notify nurses whether they had been selected to fulfill their shifts via phone calls on Thursday evening. ONA claims doing so is a violation of HB 2697, which “sets minimum safe staffing levels for nurses and allied healthcare workers.” “Providence submitted staffing plans to OHA for approval that were never agreed upon by nurses and were unilaterally adopted by management without the required approval from the nurse staffing committee,” the nurses union said in a public statement. “According to OHA, this action violates Oregon’s staffing law, as ONA-represented nurses have been claiming.
Nurses union to pay HCA Healthcare $6.2M over 2020 strike
June 21, 2024 // A local unit of SEIU has been ordered to pay HCA Healthcare's Riverside Community Hospital $6.2 million for conducting a 10-day strike in 2020. An arbitrator last month ordered the payment after it was found last year that nurse labor union SEIU Local 121RN violated a collective bargaining agreement with the hospital by holding the strike in June 2020.
Providence claims nurses union is asking travel nurses to turn down contracts during strike
June 17, 2024 // Hospital leadership is referring to an ONA letter, which calls on "all nurses to stand in solidarity" and to "not accept travel nurse contracts scheduled to start in June or July." Providence announced last week that their facilities would remain open during the strike and that they'd fill those gaps with replacement workers. "The world of replacement nurses, if they feel intimidated or if they're feeling like this isn't a place that they are welcome to come, or safe to come, then it's possible that they wouldn't choose to accept those contracts and that could negatively impact patient care," Gentry said.
Ascension Genesys nurses union reaches tentative agreement before strike
May 24, 2024 // Teamsters union officials say that the strike planned for Friday has been suspended. Nurses are told to report to work for their scheduled shifts.
KIPP St. Louis Charter High School Educators to Vote This Week on Whether to Oust AFT Union Bosses
May 14, 2024 // “AFT union officials haven’t stood up for us,” commented Johnston. “I think the majority of my coworkers agree that they’ve only made it harder for us to help our students succeed, especially through a divisive strike order, and that’s a trend I hope we can reverse with this vote. We hope the election proceeds without delay and without interference from union officials.” The NLRB has scheduled a vote to occur on Friday, May 17. According to Johnston’s petition, the vote will occur among “College and Career Advisors, English Language Learners, Leads, Lead Teachers, Learning Support Teachers, Mental health Professionals, School Nurses, Special Ed. Teachers, Specials Teachers, Speech Language Pathologists, Virtual Learning Facilitators, Behavior Support Specialists, High School Registrars, Long Term Subs, Office Coordinators, Paraprofessionals, Permanent Building Subs and Receptionists” at the school.
Kaiser Doctors In Silicon Valley Move To Unionize
May 3, 2024 // Resident and fellow physicians, who are finishing their post-graduate training, are the last of Kaiser's workers without union recognition in Northern California. They would join clinical laboratory scientists, medical laboratory technicians, optometrists and other employees. The Committee of Interns and Residents is the largest resident and fellow physician union in the county, representing more than 32,000 medical workers.
Some movement in negotiations as Salem nurses, Salem Regional Medical Center officials face strike deadline
April 16, 2024 // The nurses' union has posted an online petition asking for residents to sign. As of Tuesday afternoon, 638 people have signed the petition, which claims, "In the last 3 years, the hospital lost over 100 registered nurses, largely because nurse wages and benefits have not kept up with other area hospitals." Harklewood said that 116 Registered Nurses at the hospital are prepared to strike if nurses and the hospital don’t come to an agreement on a new contract.
Sault Saint Marie nurses strike for fair pay amid negotiation standoff
April 16, 2024 // "Overall, the movements we have shown throughout the negotiations have been monumental and where the MNA began was an unrealistic starting position. For example, when our negotiations got off the ground in November, the MNA was looking for top of scale nurses to be paid at $51.30 per hour in year one alone. Their most recent proposal from earlier this month was $48.92 ($2.38 difference). By comparison, we first offered $40.85 in January, increased to $42.19, and on April 3, the Medical Center increased again to $44.77. That means the Medical Center increased its offer by $3.92 over a similar time period. And they responded to this by walking away from the table.