5/29/09 NJ, Bayonne Medical Center, staff contract ends 5/31/09 Several hospitals involved. more
2/25/09 Nurses still on strike at Innova still, going into second month.
1/25/09 NJ,Hammonton and Deptford divisions of Innova Health and rehabilitation center. Innova. 50 nurses went on strike last Friday after negotiations failed after three year contract expired last March. State Department of Health and Senior Services is now monitoring the facility.
Buffalo, NY.strike at Women and Children's Hospital. 23 December, 08 if talks fail.
12/23/08 8,500 Nurses at UCLA and UC Irvine vote overwhelmingly to strike, No date set. Look for around the 5, 6 January 09 by law they have to hospital a 10 day notice.
Doctors, Nurses strike
Canada, New Brunswick, 5,500 nurses 12/19/08
12/7/08 Cleveland, Ohio Nurses Association and University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center could not come to an agreement, 6th attempt. Contract expires December 9, expect picket line December, 10, 2008. www.ohnurses.org.
3/7/09 Nurses at Western Health have voted 87 per cent to strike. The Western region includes Burgeo, Bonne Bay, Corner Brook, Port aux Basques, Port Saunders, and the Stephenville area. Their colleagues at Eastern Health have already voted the same way. The strike vote continues this week at Central Health and nurses in the Labrador-Grenfell region will also be casting ballots this month.
11/1/08 OH, Lima Memorial Health Systems and the union representing the hospital's nurses on Saturday avoided a potential strike when the two sides came to a last-minute agreement on a new nursing contract. .limaohio.com
10/29/08 CA, Union workers strike at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood latimes.com
10/29/08 CA, The strikers were among thousands of nursing, technical and service workers participating in a day of action at 15 mostly northern California health facilities operated by Sutter Health, the Daughters of Charity and the Alliance Clinic.pww.org
10/28/08 CA, Bay area, 10 northern California hospitals will walk off the job for 24 hours beginning at 6 a.m. Wednesday in a dispute over a new contract. Daughters of Charity and Sutter hospitals.
6,000 employees mercurynews.com
10/21/08 CA, Sutter, 6, workers, hospitals on strike next week. bizjournals.com
10/16/08 US, CA nurses' strike at a Camarillo and Oxnard hospital thecamarilloacorn.com
10/11/08 US, CA, Nurses ready to stage 5-day strike .venturacountystar.com
10/11/08 US, CA Editorial: Still time to avert strike Oct. 19 to 24 at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard and Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo, .venturacountystar.com
9/26/08 Employees Return to Jobs in Fremont, Monterey windsorlabor.com
Hospital workers consider second one-day strike
Sep 24, 2008 morganhilltimes.com
By Sara Suddes
9/24/08 FREMONT, Calif.,PRNewswire/ -- More than 700 healthcare workers
began a two-day unfair labor practice strike Wednesday morning to protest
Windsor Healthcare Management's refusal to negotiate issues affecting the
delivery of patient care to hundreds of sick and elderly in Bay Area nursing
homes. Windsor has responded by informing workers that they will lock them
out from returning to work. earthtimes.org
9/19/08 Striking Appalachian Regional Healthcare nurses awarded unemployment register-herald.com
9/17/08 US Nursing home workers vow to strike next week montereyherald.com
9/3/08 CA, Fresno County convalescent home hasn't paid its employees in a month because it's not getting money from the state. abclocal.go.com
9/3/08 CA, On Strike: Hundreds of Local Healthcare Workers Protest for Better Wages, Working Conditions. thecomptonbulletin.com
8/29/08 US, A medical strike team with emergency responders from several Maryland jurisdictions will leave for Louisiana early Saturday morning as Gulf Coast states brace for Hurricane Gustav. The Maryland group will include five advanced live support ambulances and six support vehicles staffed by 26 individuals. somd.com
9/15/08 US, WV, Striking ARH Nurses Receive Pay for Strike cbs59.com
9/15/08 US At least 1,200 nurses at the University of Washington Medical Center could soon walk off the job. mynorthwest.com
28/8/08 More than 2,000 healthcare workers launched a 24-hour strike up and down California Thursday, calling on the Daughters of Charity Health System to improve patient care. marketwatch.com
8/27/08 South Los Angeles, hundreds of healthcare workers at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood will hold one-day strike on Thursday, August 28 at 12 noon to protest the health system's attempt to undermine important patient care protections and healthcare worker's voices eurweb.com
8/26/08 Thousands of health care workers, including 350 at O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, will stage a 24-hour strike Thursday to protest what they say is management's refusal to return to the bargaining table and attempts to stifle employee input into staffing matters.mercurynews.com Patrick May
8/24/08 US, PA, EAST FRANKLIN , ACMH Hospital might not strike the first week of September, pittsburghlive.com
8/24/08 HEMET, Calif., Aug 23, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Workers at Menifee Valley Medical Center and Hemet Valley Medical Center voted by a near 2-to-1 margin last night to authorize a strike.
8/22/08 RAYBURN -- Nonprofessional employees at ACMH Hospital voted go on strike and rejected the hospital's toffer. Strike could begin at the hospital, in East Franklin Township, as early as Sept. 1, but likely will start sometime later that week, according to union officials.pittsburghlive.com
8/21/08 US, Riverside, ca. Valley Health System
Union members will vote for strike on Friday. .pe.com
8/21/08 see full article at bizjournals.com/sacramento/ by Marie-Anne Hogarth is a reporter at the East Bay Business Times.
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, with campuses in Oakland and Berkeley, and Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, are the second and third Sutter Health affiliate hospitals to announce deals with the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses Organizing Committee, ending a 15 month labor dispute that resulted in three strikes. Still ongoing Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch on Aug. 26, Santa Rosa Medical Center on Sept. 5, Eden Medical Center and San Leandro Hospital on Sept. 12 and Novato Community Hospital on Sept. 28. Some 4,000 registered nurses at Sutter Health affiliate hospitals are represented by the California Nurses Association.
8/15/08 US, Healthcare workers at five hospitals operated throughout California by the Daughters of Charity Health System are planning a one-day strike on Aug. 28. foxbusiness.com
8/14/08 A six-month strike by 220 workers at a nursing home in the Bronx is likely to end next week following a federal judge’s ruling on Thursday
US NORTHAMPTON, Mass (abc40) - Contract negotiations continue between unionized registered nurses and Cooley Dickinson Hospital. The nurses' contract expired in January. Eight months later a new contract has not been nailed down, primarily because of three key issues. wggb.com
8/8/08 CHICO No strike at Enloe Medical Center next week. Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU). Progress was made on Wednesday. Chicoer.com
2 Aug 08 US CHICO -- The union representing service workers at Enloe Medical Center plans a strike on Aug. 12 and 13. chicoer.com
15 July 08 US, California, San Diego, Despite a temporary restraining order against a strike, hundreds of University of California San Diego service workers began picketing with their brethren statewide yesterday for better wages.
14 July 08, University of California's statewide system of hospitals, dormitories and other facilities walked out on strike Monday morning. .msnbc.msn.com
13 July 08, US, California. Despite a judge's order to stay at work, the union representing some 8,500 service workers at the University of California's statewide system of hospitals, dormitories and other facilities vows they will walk out on strike Monday morning. cbs2.com
11 July 08, US, A San Francisco Superior Court judge issued an order Friday halting a strike by service or patient care workers at University of California campuses and medical centers from July 14 to July18. bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco
12/6/08 US BUFFALO, N.Y.Mercy Hospital's nurses have voted 97% in favor to call a strike.
10 July 08 Chambersburg Hospital, union panel agree on contract, apparently averting strike herald-mail.com
2 July 08 CHAMBERSBURG, PA - Employees at Chambersburg Hospital announced plans to strike if contract negotiations don't resume. Now hospital administration is responding to the situation.Your4state.com
5/24/08 UPLAND, Pa.Crozer nurses vote to strike June 5 if new deal isn't struck.
5/09/08 Flint, Michigan. Nurses agreed to a 30 day extention on contract. Do not rule out hitting the picket line. mlive.com
4/25/08 Inter-Con Security guards to strike at Kaiser hospitals The guards will hold a three-day strike at Kaiser facilities in Northern California on May 6, 7 and 8 and a one-day strike at Kaiser facilities in Southern California on May 8, according to the union. bizjournals.com
4/17/08 NJ, PASSAIC.St. Mary's Hospital are considering a strike as contract talks between union leaders and hospital management continue.myheraldnews.com
3/29/08 Striking Bay Area Nurses Go Back To Work Monday. per cbs5.com
3/21/08 Sutter strike starts. sfcgate.com
3/20/08 Sutter 10 day strike starts tomorrow.
3/20/08 NLRB Judge Overturns Disputed 2007 Nurses' Union Election - Cites Illegal Activities By Community Medical Center, USA per medicalnewstoday.com
3/10/08, Sutter RNs vote to authorize 10-day strike at eight hospitals per bizjournals.com
3/7/08 Marysville,CA, Nurses say yes to third hospital walkout, unions, per appeal-democrat.com
03/04 SAN MATEO - Some 700 Peninsula nurses began voting Monday on whether to authorize their union to call a strike of up to 10 days at two Peninsula hospitals.
*Minnesota: HealthPartners union calls for 2-day strike.Feb. 13 and 14. per bizjournals.com
Minneapolis Health care workers employed by HealthPartners may go on strike over their health insurance coverage. per Minneapolis business journal 1/28/08
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Patient Contracts Hepatitis-C From Dialysis Center, NYC Clinic Shut Down, Nearly 700 Urged To Get Tested For Hepatitis, HIV; Blood Found On Chairs, Machines wcbstv.com
4 Sept. 08 UK, patients being treated for multi-drug resistant and extremely-drug resistant TB attacked security guards in an attempt to force their way out. patients stoned security guards and ransacked the security gate house. thetimes.co.za
Hanoi/Jakarta:Chikungunya, the severe achy-joint fever that spreads in Asia via mosquitoes could easily reach more countries
in the region and take hole in Europe and the US, World Health organization experts have warned. Chikungunya is now ravaging parts of Indonesia, leaving people with rashes, vomiting, headaches and joint pain so intense it is often too painful for them to sit or stand. per AP
8/19/08 PASSENGERS on a busy Ryanair flight were "trapped" on board for over an hour after they landed in Dublin over fears a young girl had been struck down with a contagious disease. herald.ie
10/2/08 India Dengue cases at 599; DBCs call off strike timesofindia.indiatimes.com 9/19/08 New Delhi The rise in the cases of dengue continued unabated in the national capital, with 26 new patients being detected today taking the total number of people infected with the disease to 348 this season. hindu.com
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9/11/09 "The government has failed to fulfil all our demands and hence we have decided to submit resignation en masse on September 28," said Dr N Shanmukhappa, president of Haveri District Government Doctors Association.
Medical Workers, health care workers, physcians, nurses and pen pushers all on strike.
8/12/08 Argentina Professionals and doctors from 77 public hospitals in the province of Buenos Aires started a 48-hour strike Tuesday demanding a budget increase for the sector, personnel appointment and salary improvement. plenglish.com
Australia, Torres Strait, Wangaratta, Nurses on strike in Australia
6/26/08 Austrian doctors resume strike to protest health care reformIHT
7/22/08 Bahrain MANAMA: Nurses could bring Bahrain's hospitals and clinics to a standstill unless the government responds to their demand for a 50 per cent pay rise. gulf-daily-news.com
6/18/08 Botswana: Bllawu Issues Position Paper On Nursing Strike. allafrica.com
9/22/08 Public sector doctors in Burundi went on strike Monday for the first time in the country's history, seeking to better their "wages of poverty," according to union officials. afp.google.com
Canada, Canadian nurses, food and cleaning services on strike
9/20/08 Canada Grey Bruce Health Unit will be in a position to strike by Oct. 18 owensoundsuntimes.com
6/24/08 Canada Whitehorse General Hospital Professional Staff Ready to Strike if Agreement is not Reached, demands for improved wages and working conditions.
8/22/08 Africa, Thousands of patients in health care centres in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital Kinshasa are being deprived of urgent medical care after a strike by doctors and health workers entered its fifth day. irinnews.org
8/19/08 KINSHASA (AFP) — A strike by doctors at state hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo over low salaries saw medical staff across the country stop work, officials said Tuesday. afp.google.com
8/22/08 Costa Rica, Court Orders Reinstatement Of Fired Hospital Calderón Officials, Strike Over. insidecostarica.com
8/21/08 Costa Rica, Calderon Guardia Hospital Workers On Indefinite Strike. insidecostarica.com
France, medical workers, doctors, nurses strike.
3/31/08 Drs in Dominican Republic strike. wordpress.com
2/18/09 Gabon, Health service employees have been on strike since January 12, 2009. Governement bringing in security for non striking workers.more
9/3/08 Africa Doctors and nurses in Gabon suspend strike. afp.google.com
9/2/08 Africa, LIBREVILLE - Medical workers in Gabon's captial Libreville have suspended their strike to negotiate with the government, a union source told AFP today..moneybiz.co.za
8/28/08 Libreville, Gabon - Doctors and male nurses of the Libreville hospital Wednesday began an indefinite strike, the effects of which are felt in all the services, PANA observed Thursday. The hospital, which is the largest health provider in Gabon, .afriquenligne.fr
9/14/08 Splits behind Gaza, doctors, medics strike news.bbc.co.uk
9/3/08 Gaza hospitals strain under pressure of strikes. ap.google.com
8/30/08 Doctors in the Gaza Strip went on strike Saturday to protest the sacking of some 50 doctors and other health workers by the Hamas-run health ministry, saying the decision was politically motivated. afpgoogle.com
6/30/08 Ghana, Junior doctors at the Ridge and 37 Military hospitals in Accra, are today laying down their tools until their salaries, outstanding for eight months, are fully paid. myjoyonline.com
9/16/08 NO MORE STRIKE ACTIONS
… Midwives assure nation ghanaian-chronicle.com
Greece, Nationwide strike 2 April,2009 for 24 hours. Bring your medicines, take in hand luggage! Greek hospital strikes
9/24/08 Guinea: Health Workers Suspend Strike in Country allafrica.com
9/9/908 Africa GUINEA: Medical services paralysed for day two of health strike irinnews.org
14 Aug 08 Guernsey MORE operations at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital could be cancelled if another public service employees’ strike takes place.
9/15/08 Hungary, Three doctors and a nurse began a hunger strike last protest at plans to hand over the operation of Markhot Ferenc Hospital in Eger to a private company. budapesttimes.hu
10/6/08 Hungary several doctors and nurses went on hunger strike in protest at the proposed move. The private company is expected to take over running of the hospital on 1 November. budapesttimes.hu
7/13/09 Mumbai The strike by resident doctors on Monday entered the seventh day. Resident doctors and interns under the aegis of Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) are demanding higher stipends and better living conditions in the hospital. Strike has effected services at 24 medical colleges in the state and three medical colleges under the Mumbai Municipal Corporation with close to 3,000 resident doctors and interns supporting the strike. Government offer Rs 5,000 in stipends, and terminated the services of doctors who are on stike and issued notice for doctors to leave medical college campuses.
2/2/09 India, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, tomorrow, agitation has been called by IMA to protest increasing violence against doctors. 8am-8pm state wide.
9/2/08 Ireland Nurses and midwives in Cavan General Hospital are not ruling out official industrial action in the coming weeks unless new rosters to reduce their working hours are implemented.anglocelt.ie
5/29/08 Israel's hospital doctors staged a two-hour strike Thursday morning to protest the stabbing of a doctor by a patient at the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot. The incident was the latest and one of the gravest attacks carried out patients in recent years. IsraelNN.com
7/29/08 The Korea Health and Medical Workers' Union (KHMWU) began a partial strike regarding American beef used in patients' meals while also calling for a pay raise and the hiring of more personnel. .koreatimes.co.kr
7/21/08 South Korean hospital workers on Monday threatened to strike this week to press demands including a ban on the use of US beef for patients' meals. /afp.google.com
9/16/08 Latvian doctors and nurses to strike twice this fall
September 26, followed by another strike October 30 and 31 balticbusinessnews.com
2/2/09 Nepal, Birgunj, Medics and health workers of the National Medical College in Birgunj, wildcat strike, emergency only.
Manipal Hospital, Pokhara, also, emergency only.
Kathmandu, July 11 The Nepal Medical Association called off its strike from Saturday after separate talks with chief secretary of the government Bhojraj Ghimire and Minister and secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population.
11 July 08, Nepal, Thousands of patients deprived of treatment as doctors keep up protest. nepalnews.com
6/23/08 Kathmandu Medical College docs continue strike kantipuronline.com
9 July 08 Nepalese doctors walked off the job Wednesday, shutting down hospitals and clinics in the capital to pressure the government to protect them against attacks by angry relatives of patients who have died. AP
27 May 08 Norway, nurses walk of the job, major strike by public sector employees all over the country aftenposten
3/25/ Union reaches agreement with DHB per stuff.co.nz
Doctors on strike in New Zealand
9/23/08 junior doctors' industrial negotiations continue, Peter Hinds considers strike action within the context of the health sector. odt.co.nz
9/23/08 junior doctors' industrial negotiations continue, Peter Hinds considers strike action within the context of the health sector. odt.co.nz
Healthcare in Nigeria, medical workers on strike, nurses salary.
Latest doctors strike in 9/17/08 Pakistan RAWALPINDI She accused Lashmia of stealing her bag, infuriating her mother. The sources said the maid called her son at the hospital who beat Zainab up and torn her clothes. The nurses went on strike to protest this event. dailytimes.com.pk
9/13/08 Pakistan LAHORE: The doctors, nurses and paramedical staff of outdoor unit of Services Hospital went on strike Saturday against the highhandedness of local media people for allegedly torturing doctors and other medical staff last Friday. thepost.com.pk
8/15/08 Pakistan, doctor community here Friday observed strike in protest against the murder of their colleague, Dr Liaquat Ali, killed in his clinic two days ago.thenews.com.pk
Peru, 2/24/09 Doctors back on strike. More
Poland, nurses on hunger strike!
14 August 2008 JUNIOR doctors at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka have gone on an indefinite strike to press for increased housing allowances. allafrica.com
7/23/08 South Africa, The Democratic Nurses Organisation of SA (Denosa) said major hospitals would be hard hit. About 10000 nurses and other health workers planned to strike. theherald.co.za
South Africa, Government threatens doctors, strike spreading more
8/30/08 South Africa, strike by nursing staff at the Sandton Medi-Clinic has gone to mediation, the clinic's management announced on Friday.no impact on the service care and delivery at the hospital, and 68 percent of our normal nursing contingent remains on duty".int.iol.co.za
9/2/08 The wage-strike, which began on Friday, has seen approximately 30% of the clinics nurses staying away from work.sowetan.co.za
8/28/08 Nurses union Denosa and representatives of the Sandton Medic Clinic were meeting on Thursday afternoon to find a way of averting a pay strike due to begin at the private hospital in the evening..int.iol.co.za
8/27/08 South Africa, Sandton Medi-Clinic nurses will strike on Thursday evening to press for better wages, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) said on Wednesday.iol.co.za
LUSAKA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Junior doctors and pharmacists of the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka called off their strike Tuesday following the death of President Levy Mwanawasa on the same day. news.xinhuanet.com
10/17/08 Sri Lanka. Doctors in Anuradhapura General Hospital plan to strike
9/13/08 Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa Hospitals will launch a token strike on September 17, .nation.lk/
14 May 08 Sri Lanka, Six deaths were reported allegedly due to the trade union action launched by doctors and nurses at the hospital.
4/24/08 Stockholm, Sweden. Nurses strike intensifies as 900 more nurses join the 2,500 already on strike. IHF
4/20/08 STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Swedish nurses protested Sunday amid deadlocked contract negotiations, making a nationwide strike likely. About 1,000 medical workers marched through Gothenburg to reinforce their united stance before the likely strike."We are ready for conflict but it is clear that something is wrong when one has to go out on strike," one nurse told the news agency.A total of 3,500 nurses are poised to strike Monday if an agreement is not reached, TT said.
4/4/08 Sweden, The Swedish Association of Health Professionals (Vårdförbundet) announced industrial action at 4.00pm on Friday afternoon affecting 3,500 members employed by both municipalities and county councils. thelocal.se
4/29/08 Trinidad, Tobago, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC), Mt Hope will sick out today to draw attention to their safety concerns and disgust with abuse by members of the public. newsday.co.tt
7 April 08 UK, Three-year 8% pay offer to nurses. Proposed deal would give over a million staff an increase of 2.75% from April, followed by further increases of 2.4% in 2009/10 and 2.25% in 2010/11 bbc
4 June 08, UK, Nurses call for petrol cost help bbcnews
4 June 08, UK, Nurses call for petrol cost help bbcnews
1018/08 Waziristan Taliban Friday stormed the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Miramshah and kidnapped a programme coordinator of Save the Children, an NGO, and a senior doctor Mazhar Hayat, forcing other doctors to go on an indefinite strike in protest. thenews.com
9/15/08 ZimbabweTeachers do not report for work; government doctors are on strike, and while private medicine operates relatively efficiently, it is too expensive for the vast majority of the population and doctors and dentists prefer payment in foreign currency. english.aljazeera.net
8/26/08 ZIMBABWE: Doctors' strike adds to country's pain irinnews.org
8/20/08 Zimbabwe, Resident doctors and some nurses at Zimbabwe's four major state hospitals have gone on strike again, citing low salaries and chronic shortages of drugs..voanews.com
8/29/08 Swaziland. MBBANE—The Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital (RFM) and the Good Shepherd Hospital continue to be loaded with extra work as the doctors’ strike entered its third month yesterday..
9/16/08 Nurses at the Sandton Medi-Clinic are expected to return to work on Wednesday after a two-week strike was called off, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa said..iol.co.za
7 July 08, East Africa, Doctors and other health workers at the Nakuru-based Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital have called off a two-day strike after the intervention of senior Government officials.nationmedia.com
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