CHICAGO (CBS) — Hundreds of nurses picketed outside University of Illinois Hospital, after going on strike Saturday morning, demanding better care for patients as part of an ongoing contract dispute. Nurses said they put an offer on the table early Saturday morning, before walking off the job at 7 […]
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The strike of 4,000 service workers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Hospital is reaching a critical turning point. The struggle is putting nearly 5,000 public sector workers, including hundreds of nurses at the University of Illinois Hospital (UIH) who also struck last week, in conflict with the […]
UI Health is pleased that, today, Cook County Judge Pamela McLean Meyerson granted University of Illinois Hospital’s request to enter a Temporary Restraining Order against the Illinois Nurses Association (INA) preventing select critical care nurses it represents from striking. In doing so, Judge Meyerson noted that the “specialized expertise of […]
More than 800 nurses at the University of Illinois Hospital and its clinics went on strike Saturday morning after failing to reach a contract with the hospital. The nurses, who are part the Illinois Nurses Association, were in negotiations with the hospital through the summer, and their three-year contract expired […]
Joe Goldeen | The Record FRENCH CAMP – Registered nurses who work at San Joaquin General Hospital, Public Health, county clinics and the County Jail walked off the job at 7 a.m. Wednesday and plan to stay out on strike for the next five days, according to the union that […]
CHICAGO —Hundreds of striking University of Illinois nurses and health care workers marched to the Thompson Center Friday morning to ask Gov. JB Pritzker for support. In addition to at least 800 nurses, about 4,000 SEIU union members are also on strike. The hospital employees are fighting for a 4.5% […]
CHICAGO — University of Illinois at Chicago nurses on Saturday began a 7-day strike in protest of what they say are unfair labor practices. News outlets report the nurses are asking for better protective equipment and a smaller patient-to-nurse ratio. On Friday, CBS Chicago reported a Cook County judge had […]
More than 800 nurses at the University of Illinois hospital (UIH) in Chicago went on strike starting Saturday morning after contract negotiations broke down over nurse-to-patient ratios. © Getty Images Over 800 nurses in Chicago hospital strike over failed contract negotiations About 1,400 nurses were originally set to walk off […]
CHICAGO (WLS) — Negotiations resumed Tuesday on day four of the University of Illinois Hospital nurses’ strike. Rainbow PUSH’s Rev. Jesse Jackson joined the picket line in the morning. “We’re fighting for adequate equipment, we’re fighting for hours that make sense, we will not give up, we will not surrender, […]
The strike was supposed to include about 1,300 nurses, but a judge ruled that 525 who work in critical care couldn’t take part because it would endanger patients. CHICAGO — More than 800 nurses walked off the job Saturday at Chicago’s University of Illinois Hospital after the latest contract negotiations […]
More than 1,400 nurses have reached a contract agreement with University of Illinois Hospital and its clinics, after many of them went on a week-long strike earlier this month. The strike ended Saturday, and the nurses union, the Illinois Nurses Association, has been in continued negotiations with the hospital since […]