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Prime Healthcare is proposing staff-level reductions at St. Joseph Medical Center that would compromise the health and safety of patients, according to nurses who recently petitioned the company to end…

Illinois Senators Richard Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are criticizing Prime Healthcare for reducing services at St. Joseph Hospital in Joliet, which they say will compromise the healthcare of area residents.

The Illinois Nurses Association is speaking out against nonprofit health system Ascension’s decision to outsource more than 100 clinicians at its Chicago hospitals to a staffing company owned by a…

A strike date has not yet been set, and a strike could still be averted. The nurses and health system have several more bargaining dates scheduled for this week.

Among the group’s demands are higher wages to meet rising costs of living, lower staff-to-patient ratios and an increase in paid parental leave from the current six weeks.

After a year and a half of negotiations and two strikes, a union representing 360 workers at Howard Brown has approved its first contract with the health care provider. The…

Nurses at Ascension Saint Joseph-Joliet hospital invite the public to join their next information picket Wednesday, which will be held at almost the one-year mark since union contract negotiations started….

Howard Brown Health has reached a tentative agreement with its union, after a year and a half of negotiations that included two workers strikes. The Illinois Nurses Association, which represents…

In July the regional office of the NLRB found merit in accusations against Howard Brown by union members alleging the organization bargained in bad faith amid layoffs last year. The…