Hospital staff plan nationwide strike in November in support of better pay deal
5 years, 2 months ago

Hospital staff plan nationwide strike in November in support of better pay deal

Dutch News  

Hospital workers nationwide plan to stop all non-emergency work on November 20 in support of their campaign for a better pay deal. The four big healthcare unions FNV, FBZ, Nu’91 and CNV are campaigning for a 5% pay rise and a supplement for staff who are called up to work at the last minute. The pay deal covers 200,000 workers at 83 hospitals and the unions expect around half will of hospitals will take part in the strike. Talks on a new pay deal broke down in June and since July workers have taken part in sporadic works-to-rule and strikes.

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Pharmacies to close next week after unions announce nationwide strike
6 days, 20 hours ago

Pharmacies to close next week after unions announce nationwide strike

NL Times  

Thousands of pharmacies throughout the country are going to close next week on Thursday and Friday, January 9, and January 10, due to a strike. Trade unions FNV and CNV are organizing the strike to strengthen their position during negotiations for a new Collective Labor Agreement. Following that ban, the unions had already announced that there would be a multi-day …

Doctors' nationwide strike: Which medical services remain affected? Check details
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Doctors' nationwide strike: Which medical services remain affected? Check details

India TV News  

Significantly, FORDA has first announced the strike in a statement released on Sunday, aiming to show solidarity with the victims and address broader issues of safety for healthcare workers. "As a mark of our solidarity with the colleagues of RG Kar, we announce a nationwide halt of elective services in hospitals starting Monday. This decision is not made lightly, but …

Thousands of doctors go on strike in England a week before the UK general election
6 months, 1 week ago

Thousands of doctors go on strike in England a week before the UK general election

Associated Press  

LONDON — Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout on Thursday in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions, disrupting hospital services just days before the U.K. general election. The five-day strike by junior doctors — those in the early years of their careers — shines a spotlight on the troubles besetting the …

New deal could end strike action by top hospital doctors in England
10 months ago

New deal could end strike action by top hospital doctors in England

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. BMA consultants committee chairman Dr Vishal Sharma said: “This hard fought-for offer marks a step …

Thousands of doctors in England to strike again as health likely to become a key UK election issue
11 months ago

Thousands of doctors in England to strike again as health likely to become a key UK election issue

Associated Press  

LONDON — Thousands of doctors in the early years of their careers in England are to go on strike later this month for another five-day stretch as their long-standing pay dispute with the British government remains in stasis. The British Medical Association, the union that represents the so-called junior doctors, said on Friday that the government had “failed to meet …

Thousands of junior doctors in Britain walk off the job in six-day strike over pay
1 year ago

Thousands of junior doctors in Britain walk off the job in six-day strike over pay

LA Times  

Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association demonstrate outside St. Thomas’ Hospital in London on Wednesday at the start of a six-day strike. On a picket line outside St. Thomas’ Hospital in central London, 28-year-old Dr. Georgia Blackwell said stress and low pay were driving many doctors to take jobs overseas. The government says it won’t hold further …

Healthcare workers kick off 5-day strike at four hospitals over staffing shortage, labor practices
1 year, 3 months ago

Healthcare workers kick off 5-day strike at four hospitals over staffing shortage, labor practices

LA Times  

Hundreds of workers at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood walked out on Sept. 28 as part of a five-day strike. Roughly 1,500 essential workers at four hospitals in Los Angeles County kicked off a five-day strike Monday morning to protest what they claim are dangerous working conditions and unfair labor practices by hospital management. Employees at St. Francis Medical …

Opinion: Why the Kaiser Permanente strike may signal more healthcare labor unrest to come
1 year, 3 months ago

Opinion: Why the Kaiser Permanente strike may signal more healthcare labor unrest to come

LA Times  

More than 75,000 nurses, nursing assistants, technicians, pharmacists and other healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente went on strike in California and beyond this week. The Kaiser workers argue that the low pay and benefits, lack of adequate training and poor working conditions that led them to strike are also putting patients at risk. Doctors and other healthcare workers in Britain …

Thousands of US workers are on strike today. Here’s a rundown of major work stoppages happening now
1 year, 3 months ago

Thousands of US workers are on strike today. Here’s a rundown of major work stoppages happening now

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — It’s been a big year for labor organizing in the U.S. And from auto production lines to Hollywood, all eyes are on strikes taking the world of work by storm. 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walk off the job In the health care sector, a major strike kicked off this week — with some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers …

US healthcare workers go on strike in several states over wages, staff shortages
1 year, 3 months ago

US healthcare workers go on strike in several states over wages, staff shortages

India Today  

Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job Wednesday in multiple states, kicking off a major health care strike in an extraordinary year for US labour organising and work stoppages. “They’re not listening to the frontline health care workers,” said Mikki Fletchall, a licensed vocational nurse based in a Kaiser medical office in Camarillo, California. “We’re striking because of …

Junior doctors across England continue strike action
1 year, 3 months ago

Junior doctors across England continue strike action

The Independent  

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Hospital services in the UK come to a standstill as thousands of senior doctors strike again
1 year, 4 months ago

Hospital services in the UK come to a standstill as thousands of senior doctors strike again

Associated Press  

LONDON — Hospital care across England largely came to a standstill on Thursday as senior doctors launch another 48-hour strike amid an ongoing pay dispute between medics and the British government. Thousands of hospital doctors say they will only provide emergency care, and the National Health Service warned patients to expect major disruption during the two-day strike. Thursday’s action is …

Doctor strikes could last until 2025, senior medic warns
1 year, 6 months ago

Doctor strikes could last until 2025, senior medic warns

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Strike action by doctors could last until 2025, a senior …

L.A. voters could clamp down on pay for hospital executives
1 year, 6 months ago

L.A. voters could clamp down on pay for hospital executives

LA Times  

Members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West picket during a strike at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 2022. Los Angeles voters will decide next spring whether to clamp down on pay for hospital executives, capping their total wages and other compensation at $450,000 annually, after the Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to put the …

NHS unions vote to accept government pay deal – but nurses could still strike
1 year, 8 months ago

NHS unions vote to accept government pay deal – but nurses could still strike

The Independent  

Unions representing more than one million NHS workers have voted to accept a 5 per cent pay rise from the government following months of strikes. Health secretary Steve Barclay called the agreement a “good day for NHS staff and patients” and said he will implement the deal for all staff, even those who have not accepted the offer. We mustn’t …

Nurses could continue to strike until Christmas, warns RCN leader
1 year, 8 months ago

Nurses could continue to strike until Christmas, warns RCN leader

The Telegraph  

Nurses could continue to strike until Christmas unless a deal with the Government can be reached, a trade union leader has warned. Pat Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said her members would “absolutely” not cancel their current walkouts amid the ongoing pay dispute. Last week, RCN members rejected the offer of a five per cent …

UK junior doctors begin 4-day strike, seeking hefty pay hike
1 year, 8 months ago

UK junior doctors begin 4-day strike, seeking hefty pay hike

Associated Press  

LONDON — Tens of thousands of doctors walked off the job across England on Tuesday, kicking off a four-day strike billed as the most disruptive in the history of the U.K.’s public health service. Picket lines formed outside major hospitals and hundreds of doctors marched past the prime minister’s 10 Downing St. residence to Parliament, chanting “We are off to …

Hospital workers to go back on strike in mid-April, unions say
1 year, 9 months ago

Hospital workers to go back on strike in mid-April, unions say

NL Times  

Hospital workers will again walk off the job in mid-April, when they will bring dozens of hospital staffing levels down so that only a basic level of care can be provided, similar to a normal Sunday. The group has called upon "employers, employees and all other parties involved to quickly reach an agreement that will guarantee good hospital care for …

200,000 hospital workers to get a 15% pay rise over two years
1 year, 9 months ago

200,000 hospital workers to get a 15% pay rise over two years

Dutch News  

A new pay deal has been agreed for 200,000 hospital workers which will give the majority a 15% pay rise over two years. The agreement, which does not affect teaching hospitals, gives nursing staff roughly 5% backdated to February, a further 5% in December and another 5% in June 2024. ‘The main reason people stop working at hospitals is the …

200,000 hospital workers to get a 15% pay rise over two years
1 year, 9 months ago

200,000 hospital workers to get a 15% pay rise over two years

Dutch News  

A new pay deal has been agreed for 200,000 hospital workers which will give the majority a 15% pay rise over two years. The agreement, which does not affect teaching hospitals, gives nursing staff roughly 5% backdated to February, a further 5% in December and another 5% in June 2024. ‘The main reason people stop working at hospitals is the …

Nurses, paramedics reach pay deal to end England strikes
1 year, 9 months ago

Nurses, paramedics reach pay deal to end England strikes

Associated Press  

LONDON — Unions representing more than a million health care workers in England, including nurses and paramedics — but not doctors — reached a deal Thursday to resolve months of disruptive strikes for higher wages. “Today’s agreement demonstrates we are serious about this and we can find workable solutions.” But the head of the Royal College of Nursing, one of …

Hospital strike to go ahead on Thursday with no end in sight to dispute
1 year, 9 months ago

Hospital strike to go ahead on Thursday with no end in sight to dispute

Dutch News  

A one-day strike by hospital workers is set to go ahead on March 16 with no sign of a deal between unions and employers on the horizon. Scheduled operations have been cancelled at 64 facilities across the country, including the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital in Amsterdam, which is taking part in a strike for the first time. ‘The 10% increase …

UK: Tens of thousands of doctors kick off 3-day strike
1 year, 9 months ago

UK: Tens of thousands of doctors kick off 3-day strike

Associated Press  

LONDON — Tens of thousands of junior doctors went on strike across England on Monday to demand better pay, kicking off three days of widespread disruption at the U.K.'s state-funded hospitals and health clinics. The British Medical Association, the doctors’ trade union, says pay for junior doctors has fallen 26% in real terms since 2008, while workload and patient waiting …

UK protest backs health staff as doctors prepare to strike
1 year, 9 months ago

UK protest backs health staff as doctors prepare to strike

Associated Press  

LONDON — Thousands of protesters marched through London to the British prime minister’s residence on Saturday to support health care workers who have held a series of strikes over pay and conditions in the state-funded National Health Service. NHS England said the doctors’ strike would be even more disruptive than recent walkouts by nurses and ambulance staff. As well as …

Hospital workers to strike on March 16, as pay unrest continues
1 year, 10 months ago

Hospital workers to strike on March 16, as pay unrest continues

Dutch News  

Healthcare workers will go on strike on March 16 at 64 hospitals nationwide as their campaign for higher pay continues. The hospital workers’ strike is the latest in a string of stoppages, as unions demand pay rises in line with soaring inflation, which hit 8% in January. Regional transport workers are also involved in a new six-week round of strikes …

Hospital workers to strike on March 16, as pay unrest continues
1 year, 10 months ago

Hospital workers to strike on March 16, as pay unrest continues

Dutch News  

Healthcare workers will go on strike on March 16 at 64 hospitals nationwide as their campaign for higher pay continues. The hospital workers’ strike is the latest in a string of stoppages, as unions demand pay rises in line with soaring inflation, which hit 8% in January. Regional transport workers are also involved in a new six-week round of strikes …

Nurses announce new strike action - is your area affected?
1 year, 10 months ago

Nurses announce new strike action - is your area affected?

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While Pat Cullen of the Royal College of Nurses previously told The Independent that its …

UK nurses, ambulance crews strike, straining health system
1 year, 11 months ago

UK nurses, ambulance crews strike, straining health system

Associated Press  

LONDON — Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff walked off the job in the U.K. on Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country’s public health system. The walkout is the latest in a wave of strikes that has disrupted Britons’ lives for months, as workers — especially in the public sector …

British workers stage largest strike in history of health service
1 year, 11 months ago

British workers stage largest strike in history of health service

Deccan Chronicle  

LONDON: Health workers in Britain began their largest strike on Monday, as tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers walk out in an escalating pay dispute, putting further strain on the state-run National Health Service. Nurses and ambulance workers have been striking separately on and off since late last year but Monday's walkout involving both, largely in England, is …

U.K. nurses stage new walkout as strike wave intensifies
1 year, 11 months ago

U.K. nurses stage new walkout as strike wave intensifies

The Hindu  

Thousands of nurses in Britain walked out Wednesday in a new protest over pay, with no end in sight to a wave of strikes that has piled pressure on the UK's overburdened public health system. “Nursing students don't want to be nurses, experienced nurses are leaving, there will be no-one left and I don't blame them, but I can't imagine …

Thousands of nurses and ambulance workers to strike on same day
1 year, 11 months ago

Thousands of nurses and ambulance workers to strike on same day

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On the fresh wave of strikes announced, NHS Providers’ interim chief executive Saffron Cordery …

UK nurses stage new walkout as strike wave intensifies
1 year, 11 months ago

UK nurses stage new walkout as strike wave intensifies

Associated Press  

LONDON — Thousands of nurses in Britain walked out Wednesday in a new protest over pay, with no end in sight to a wave of strikes that has piled pressure on the U.K.‘s overburdened public health system. “Nursing students don’t want to be nurses, experienced nurses are leaving, there will be no-one left and I don’t blame them, but I …

Thousands of nurses go on strike across England
1 year, 11 months ago

Thousands of nurses go on strike across England

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Unaffordable pay hikes will mean cutting patient care and stoking the inflation that would …

Thousands of ambulance workers go on strike in dispute over pay
1 year, 11 months ago

Thousands of ambulance workers go on strike in dispute over pay

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Where possible, our 999 control rooms will carefully assess and prioritise an ambulance response …

Nurses in New York City strike over wages and staffing levels
2 years ago

Nurses in New York City strike over wages and staffing levels

Al Jazeera  

More than 7,000 nurses are on strike at two NYC hospitals, stating that low wages and staffing levels have squeezed workers. Nurses at two major hospitals in New York City have gone on strike, citing low wages and staffing levels that have left many exhausted several years into the COVID-19 pandemic. The nurse’s union, the New York State Nurses Association, …

Thousands of New York nurses prepare ‘last resort’ strike as hospitals scramble to prepare
2 years ago

Thousands of New York nurses prepare ‘last resort’ strike as hospitals scramble to prepare

The Independent  

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NYC nurses give 10-day strike notice as talks continue
2 years ago

NYC nurses give 10-day strike notice as talks continue

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Thousands of nurses in New York City notified eight hospitals on Friday that they will go on strike in 10 days unless contract agreements are reached. The eight hospitals where the nurses could strike include New York-Presbyterian, Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Maimonides, BronxCare, Richmond University Medical Center and Flushing Hospital Medical Center. …

NHS braced for ‘worst’ chaos ahead as strike knock-on effect hits hospitals
2 years ago

NHS braced for ‘worst’ chaos ahead as strike knock-on effect hits hospitals

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Senior health figures have said the “fallout from strike action is likely to spill over …

UK Ambulance Workers Ready to Join Widening Strikes Amid Protests by Nurse
2 years ago

UK Ambulance Workers Ready to Join Widening Strikes Amid Protests by Nurse

News 18  

UK ambulance workers readied to walk out on Wednesday, a day after nurses staged their second stoppage, in a widening dispute with the government which is refusing to cede to above-inflation demands on pay. On the picket line outside a central London hospital opposite parliament, Mamta Pun, 25, said Sunak’s stance on the pay dispute was “a slap in the …

Nurses' strike will fuel inflation and 'help no one', Health Secretary warns
2 years, 1 month ago

Nurses' strike will fuel inflation and 'help no one', Health Secretary warns

Daily Mail  

The nursing union's pay demands will help no one and could worsen inflation, the Health Secretary has said. But Mr Barclay said the strikes are in 'nobody's best interests' and meeting the pay demand — which would cost £9billion, around six per cent of the entire NHS budget — would 'turbocharge inflation'. But Unite said medics are in a 'fight …

Thousands Of Minnesota Nurses Launch 3-day Strike Over Pay
2 years, 3 months ago

Thousands Of Minnesota Nurses Launch 3-day Strike Over Pay

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of nurses in Minnesota launched a three-day strike Monday, pressing for salary increases they say will help improve patient care by resolving understaffing stresses that have worsened in the coronavirus pandemic. Another child maybe had to wait for a breathing treatment because we just couldn’t get to them all fast enough.” Union spokesman Sam …

'Understaffed and overworked': Thousands of Minnesota nurses go on strike
2 years, 3 months ago

'Understaffed and overworked': Thousands of Minnesota nurses go on strike

India Today  

Some 15,000 nurses in Minnesota walked off the job on Monday to protest hospital understaffing that their union says has harmed patient care and exhausted health workers as they negotiate a new contract with hospital executives. "Hospital executives have already driven nurses away from the bedside by their refusal to solve the crises of staffing and retention in our hospitals," …

‘Overworked’: US nurses strike over low pay, staffing shortages
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Overworked’: US nurses strike over low pay, staffing shortages

Al Jazeera  

About 15,000 nurses in state of Minnesota begin three-day strike, one of the largest of its kind in US history. The strike, which the MNA said is believed to be the largest of its kind in United States history, highlights the persistent problems that US healthcare workers face, such as low pay and staffing shortages. The strike has caught the …

Hospital workers launch strike over pay
2 years, 11 months ago

Hospital workers launch strike over pay

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham Unite general secretary Sharon …

Another university hospital strike planned for Nov. 25
3 years, 2 months ago

Another university hospital strike planned for Nov. 25

NL Times  

The university hospitals employees will strike again on November 25 if the employers' organization NFU refuses to discuss the workload and staff shortages. Once again, the participating employees will run on "Sunday shifts," which means they will only provide emergency care. At the end of September, the Cabinet announced that extra money would be made available for increasing salaries in …

Labor unions at a crossroads: Here’s why 2021 could be their big year
3 years, 10 months ago

Labor unions at a crossroads: Here’s why 2021 could be their big year

CNN  

Rarely has the chasm between rank-and-file-workers and the extremely wealthy been this wide. David Ryder/Bloomberg/Getty Images “I do think that the current moment provides an opportunity for unions that has not existed in many, many years,” Wong said, “and that there is a growing national consensus that there needs to be dramatic changes to ensure that the economy does indeed …

Nursing home workers threaten strike in midst of pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

Nursing home workers threaten strike in midst of pandemic

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Workers at 40 Chicago-area nursing homes announced Monday they have set a May 8 strike date over wages as many of the facilities are treating patients suffering from the coronavirus. Members of the Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 10,000 workers at 100 nursing homes, most in the Chicago area, are negotiating with the Illinois Association …

Hospitals nationwide only treating emergencies as healthcare workers strike
5 years, 1 month ago

Hospitals nationwide only treating emergencies as healthcare workers strike

NL Times  

General hospitals throughout the Netherlands are running on so-called Sunday service today as hospital workers strike for better employment conditions. According to the trade unions, around 75 percent of all general hospital employees will strike at 119 locations. The collective labor agreement for general hospitals, which covers around 200 thousand hospital workers, expired in March and negotiations are deadlocked. The …

Hundreds of surgeries postponed for hospital workers' strike tomorrow
5 years, 1 month ago

Hundreds of surgeries postponed for hospital workers' strike tomorrow

NL Times  

For the first time in Dutch history, there will be a nationwide strike among hospital workers on Thursday. The vast majority of hospitals are expected to take part in the strike, excluding the university hospitals which fall under a different collective labor agreement. The collective labor agreement for hospitals expired on March 31st and affects over 200 thousand hospital employees. …

Hospital staff to stage first nationwide one-day strike on November 20
5 years, 2 months ago

Hospital staff to stage first nationwide one-day strike on November 20

Dutch News  

Hospital staff are to stage a national strike on November 20 after talks to agree an improved pay deal broke down. Unions say around 90% of staff at 83 hospitals and 30 rehabilitation centres are prepared to join what will be the first nationwide stoppage by healthcare workers. Around 20,000 workers are covered by the collective pay deal that four …

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