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Calif. hospital nurses strike as county officials spend over $20M on contract nurses
April 9, 2024 // The nurses association represents more than 3,750 nurses in the Santa Clara Valley Healthcare system, which is California’s second-largest county-owned health and hospital system and has one million patient visits annually. Nurses are picketing this week at the system’s three main hospitals: Valley Medical Center and O’Connor Hospital in San Jose and St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy.
Thousands of Santa Clara Co. nurses walk off the job in 3-day strike
April 4, 2024 // Santa Clara County nurses from the Registered Nurses Professional Association are holding the first strike in the union's history.
Over 400 Daly City hospital workers go on strike
March 26, 2024 // Workers claim the hospital changed union health care benefits at the start of the year, and as a result, workers either pay up to $6,000 to keep access to existing doctors and hospitals or accept the new health plan they claim does not include prenatal or pediatric care. Seton management says it is offering 16% pay increases over three years; free medical benefits for immediate families; and up to 400 hours annually of accrued paid time off.
Over 1,000 nurses at Staten Island University Hospital submit strike notice
March 25, 2024 // This strike notice follows several other nurses strikes across the Tri-State Area. Nurses at Robert Wood University Hospital in New Jersey were on strike for nearly four months last year before ratifying a new contract in December. A possible strike was averted at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Northwell in February.
Labor Union Strike Activity Increased 280% in 2023
March 20, 2024 // Crucially, the BLS data do not capture all strike activity because BLS only includes strikes involving 1,000 or more workers lasting at least one full shift. For example, a six-week strike involving 750 Temple University graduate student workers was not captured in the 2023 data, because it did not meet the BLS size limitations.
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Nurses Vote Union Out at Sunnyvale and Mountain View Facilities
March 14, 2024 // Victory continues string of successful union decertification attempts by healthcare workers across the country Palo Alto Medical Foundation Nurses Vote Union Out at Sunnyvale and Mountain View Facilities
Two week ONA homecare and hospice nurse strike begins
February 12, 2024 // The rally featured speakers such as Eugene’s Mayor Lucy Vinis, United States Representative Val Hoyle, Oregon State Senator James Manning and Oregon House Majority Leader Julie Fahey to show their support.
Adrian nurses holding ‘practice strike’ say it’s ‘last chance ProMedica has to come to their senses’ in contract negotiations
February 2, 2024 // MNA is demanding a few key items in the next contract, including higher wages, no two-tier retirement system and smaller staffing-to-patient ratios. According to the union, the highest wage a nurse can make is around $42/hour. They want that to be more than $50/hour. The union also said ProMedica wants new hires to have a different retirement plan than current nurses.
Planned Parenthood Northern California workers move to unionize
January 25, 2024 // Planned Parenthood Northern California workers announced their unionization efforts today at all of the nonprofit’s 18 regional locations, including a San Francisco health center at 1522 Bush St. A “supermajority” of the organization’s hundreds of clinicians, nurses, social workers, administrative and support staff voiced their support for the forthcoming union, PPNorCal United, through union authorization cards, according to Service Employees International Union Local 1021, which PPNorCal United intends to join. Chelsea Fink, a communications specialist with SEIU 1021, said the union drive grew rapidly over the past two months, fueled by the short staffing and scheduling issues that have plagued Planned Parenthood since the Supreme Court ended federal protections for abortion rights in June 2022.
MAINE: Fort Kent hospital nurses voting on unionizing Wednesday
January 22, 2024 // The NMMC nurses’ platform, according to a bulletin from the Maine State Nurses Association and National Nurses United, is for safer staffing and scheduling practices, retention-focused benefits, job protections, and fair and transparent wages that reward years of experience and longevity. They are also seeking an RN-elected committee to give them an equal say in patient care standards, nurse-led workplace violence prevention, adequate supplies and equipment, and improved differentials for floating shifts, charge, and precepting.