[ { "event_id": "2010-temple-univ", "year": 2010, "start_date_iso": "2010-03-31", "date_display": "Mar 31 – Apr 28, 2010", "facility": "Temple University Hospital", "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA", "workers_approx": 1500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "28 days", "issues": "Wages, benefits, 'gag rule' on nurses speaking about conditions; PASNAP nurses + techs won contract after month-long strike", "hospital_system": "Temple University Health System", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2010-twin-cities-mna", "year": 2010, "start_date_iso": "2010-06-10", "date_display": "Jun 10, 2010", "facility": "Twin Cities hospitals (14 hospitals, 6 systems incl. Allina, Fairview, Children's)", "city": "Minneapolis–St. Paul", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 12000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Nurse-to-patient ratios, pension, pay — largest nurses' strike in U.S. history at the time (MNA)", "hospital_system": "Multiple (Allina, Fairview, HealthEast, North Memorial, Children's, Park Nicollet)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2011-whc-dc", "year": 2011, "start_date_iso": "2011-03-04", "date_display": "Mar 4, 2011", "facility": "Washington Hospital Center", "city": "Washington", "state": "DC", "workers_approx": 1600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + 4-day lockout", "issues": "Short staffing and compensation cuts; MedStar locked out nurses 4 extra days, ~$6M cost (NNU)", "hospital_system": "MedStar Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2011-tufts-averted", "year": 2011, "start_date_iso": "2011-05-06", "date_display": "May 2011 (strike averted)", "facility": "Tufts Medical Center", "city": "Boston", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 1200, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Strike called for May 6, 2011 was averted with a last-minute agreement (MNA)", "hospital_system": "Tufts Medicine (Wellforce)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2011-hibbing-range", "year": 2011, "start_date_iso": "2011-07-11", "date_display": "Jul 11–13, 2011", "facility": "Range Regional Health Services", "city": "Hibbing", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 150, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Safe staffing, chronic overtime and burnout (MNA); earlier April strike notice was pulled after a deal", "hospital_system": "Fairview Range", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2011-ca-kaiser-sympathy", "year": 2011, "start_date_iso": "2011-09-22", "date_display": "Sep 22, 2011", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente hospitals (statewide sympathy strike)", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 17000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Sympathy strike with NUHW workers protesting proposed retirement and health benefit cuts (CNA/NNU)", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "2011-ca-sutter-childrens", "year": 2011, "start_date_iso": "2011-09-22", "date_display": "Sep 22, 2011", "facility": "Sutter hospitals (12) + Children's Hospital Oakland", "city": "Bay Area", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 6000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + 5-day lockout", "issues": "Benefit and sick-leave cuts; during the lockout, patient Judith Ming died Sep 24 at Alta Bates Summit after a replacement nurse's medication error", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": "2011-ca-dec-sutter-lbm", "year": 2011, "start_date_iso": "2011-12-22", "date_display": "Dec 22, 2011", "facility": "Sutter Bay Area hospitals + Long Beach Memorial", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 6000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Cuts to health coverage, sick leave and patient-care concessions (CNA/NNU)", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health / MemorialCare", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": "2012-kaiser-jan", "year": 2012, "start_date_iso": "2012-01-31", "date_display": "Jan 31, 2012", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente facilities (statewide)", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 18000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Mental health understaffing + proposed health/retirement benefit cuts; NUHW clinicians joined by ~17,000 CNA RNs and Local 39 engineers", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "2012-sutter-jun", "year": 2012, "start_date_iso": "2012-06-13", "date_display": "Jun 13, 2012", "facility": "Sutter hospitals (11, incl. Alta Bates Summit)", "city": "Bay Area", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 4500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "~100 proposed contract concessions nurses said would erode patient care (CNA/NNU)", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": "2012-sutter-nov", "year": 2012, "start_date_iso": "2012-11-01", "date_display": "Nov 1, 2012", "facility": "Sutter East Bay hospitals (7)", "city": "East Bay", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 3200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "18-month contract fight over concessions; one of 70+ CNA strikes in CA in two years", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": "2013-sutter-eastbay", "year": 2013, "start_date_iso": "2013-05-21", "date_display": "May 2013 (7-day strike)", "facility": "Sutter East Bay hospitals (incl. Alta Bates Summit)", "city": "East Bay", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 3100, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "Contract demands nurses called union-busting; 9th Sutter walkout in two years (CNA/NNU)", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": "2013-uc-afscme", "year": 2013, "start_date_iso": "2013-05-21", "date_display": "May 21–22, 2013", "facility": "UC medical centers (5) + UC Berkeley health center", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 13000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Patient-care staffing and safety (AFSCME 3299 patient care workers; UPTE-CWA sympathy strike)", "hospital_system": "University of California", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": "2014-kaiser-mh", "year": 2014, "start_date_iso": "2014-04-23", "date_display": "Apr 2014 (date approx.)", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente mental health clinics (statewide)", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 2500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Mental health understaffing and appointment wait times (NUHW; one of five strikes 2011–2015 per NUHW chronology)", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "2014-kaiser-ebola", "year": 2014, "start_date_iso": "2014-11-11", "date_display": "Nov 11–12, 2014", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (86 CA hospitals & clinics)", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 18000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Inadequate Ebola safeguards and eroding patient-care staffing; Sutter Tracy and Watsonville Community RNs struck the same days (NNU)", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "2014-whc-dec", "year": 2014, "start_date_iso": "2014-12-22", "date_display": "Dec 22, 2014", "facility": "Washington Hospital Center", "city": "Washington", "state": "DC", "workers_approx": 1600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Staffing levels and Ebola preparedness (NNU)", "hospital_system": "MedStar Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2015-kaiser-mh", "year": 2015, "start_date_iso": "2015-01-12", "date_display": "Jan 12–19, 2015", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente mental health clinics (65 picket lines, statewide)", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 2600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "Mental health understaffing and long patient wait times (NUHW week-long statewide strike)", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "2015-uchicago-averted", "year": 2015, "start_date_iso": "2015-04-28", "date_display": "Apr 28, 2015 (strike averted)", "facility": "University of Chicago Medical Center", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 1500, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "One-day strike called for Apr 30 averted after tentative agreement; 95% had authorized (NNU)", "hospital_system": "UChicago Medicine", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2015-sutter-5", "year": 2015, "start_date_iso": "2015-04-30", "date_display": "Apr 30, 2015", "facility": "Sutter hospitals (Roseville, Mills-Peninsula, Auburn Faith, Tracy, Santa Rosa)", "city": "Northern California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 2500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + lockout", "issues": "Compensation and patient-safety issues (CNA/NNU)", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": "2016-allina-june", "year": 2016, "start_date_iso": "2016-06-19", "date_display": "Jun 19–26, 2016", "facility": "Allina Health hospitals (5: Abbott Northwestern, Mercy, United, Unity, Phillips Eye)", "city": "Minneapolis–St. Paul", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 4800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "Health insurance benefits and staffing (MNA); first of two 2016 Allina strikes", "hospital_system": "Allina Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2016-brigham-averted", "year": 2016, "start_date_iso": "2016-06-27", "date_display": "Jun 2016 (strike averted)", "facility": "Brigham and Women's Hospital", "city": "Boston", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 3300, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Planned one-day strike averted after agreement on pay, staffing and benefits (MNA)", "hospital_system": "Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2016-allina-fall", "year": 2016, "start_date_iso": "2016-09-05", "date_display": "Sep 5 – Oct 16, 2016", "facility": "Allina Health hospitals (5)", "city": "Minneapolis–St. Paul", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 4800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~6 weeks (open-ended)", "issues": "Health insurance benefits; the two 2016 strikes cost Allina ~$105–149M (MNA)", "hospital_system": "Allina Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "2016-prime-seiu", "year": 2016, "start_date_iso": "2016-10-01", "date_display": "Oct 2016 (week-long, dates approx.)", "facility": "Prime Healthcare SoCal hospitals (incl. St. Francis Lynwood, Centinela, Garden Grove, Encino)", "city": "Los Angeles area", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 1800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~7 days", "issues": "Severe understaffing and refusal to bargain (SEIU-UHW; ~500 St. Francis RNs also struck); contract settled Aug 2017", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": "2017-tufts", "year": 2017, "start_date_iso": "2017-07-12", "date_display": "Jul 12, 2017", "facility": "Tufts Medical Center", "city": "Boston", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 1200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + 4-day lockout", "issues": "Staffing, pay and pension changes; first Boston nurses' strike in 31 years (MNA)", "hospital_system": "Tufts Medicine (Wellforce)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2018, "start_date_iso": "2018-05-08", "date_display": "May 8–9", "facility": "University of California medical centers (5 campuses)", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 53000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "AFSCME service and patient-care workers struck over wages and outsourcing; nurses and technical staff joined in sympathy", "hospital_system": "University of California", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2018, "start_date_iso": "2018-10-23", "date_display": "Oct 23–25", "facility": "University of California medical centers (5 campuses)", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 39000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Second systemwide strike of 2018 over wages, outsourcing, and pay inequality", "hospital_system": "University of California", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2019, "start_date_iso": "2019-05-06", "date_display": "May 6 – mid-Jun", "facility": "Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center", "city": "Toledo", "state": "OH", "workers_approx": 2000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~6 weeks", "issues": "Mandatory on-call hours, health benefit costs, and staffing — one of the biggest labor disputes in Toledo history", "hospital_system": "Bon Secours Mercy Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2019, "start_date_iso": "2019-09-20", "date_display": "Sep 20", "facility": "University of Chicago Medical Center", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 2200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + 4-day lockout", "issues": "Chronic short staffing, forced on-call hours, and patient safety", "hospital_system": "UChicago Medicine", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2020, "start_date_iso": "2020-01-28", "date_display": "Jan 28–30", "facility": "Swedish Medical Center (Providence)", "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA", "workers_approx": 8000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days + lockout", "issues": "Wages, staffing, and alleged unfair labor practices — two ERs closed during the walkout", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2020, "start_date_iso": "2020-03-05", "date_display": "Mar 5–7", "facility": "San Joaquin General Hospital", "city": "French Camp", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 750, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Unsafe patient staffing, nurse retention, and wages", "hospital_system": "San Joaquin County (public)", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2020, "start_date_iso": "2020-06-26", "date_display": "Jun 26 – Jul 5", "facility": "Riverside Community Hospital", "city": "Riverside", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "10 days", "issues": "Understaffing and lack of PPE during the first COVID-19 surge", "hospital_system": "HCA Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2020, "start_date_iso": "2020-07-04", "date_display": "Jul 4–20", "facility": "AMITA Health Saint Joseph Medical Center", "city": "Joliet", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 720, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "16 days", "issues": "Unsafe staffing and benefit protections — first strike there since 1993; won staffing improvements", "hospital_system": "AMITA Health (Ascension)", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Clinical staffing outsourced to SCP Health (Onex Partners)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2020, "start_date_iso": "2020-07-20", "date_display": "Jul 20–24", "facility": "Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital", "city": "Santa Rosa", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 740, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Proposed cuts to sick leave and health benefits, plus PPE shortages — the largest pandemic-era strike at the time", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2020, "start_date_iso": "2020-09-12", "date_display": "Sep 12–19", "facility": "University of Illinois Hospital", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "PPE and safer COVID-19 working conditions; thousands of SEIU service workers joined mid-strike", "hospital_system": "UI Health", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2020, "start_date_iso": "2020-10-07", "date_display": "Oct 7–11", "facility": "San Joaquin General Hospital", "city": "French Camp", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 750, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Second strike of 2020 over staffing and PPE; a contract was ratified in 2021", "hospital_system": "San Joaquin County (public)", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2020, "start_date_iso": "2020-10-07", "date_display": "Oct 7–12", "facility": "San Leandro & Alameda Hospitals", "city": "San Leandro & Alameda", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 1000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Alleged failure to protect nurses and patients during the pandemic", "hospital_system": "Alameda Health System", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2020, "start_date_iso": "2020-11-17", "date_display": "Nov 17–19", "facility": "St. Mary Medical Center", "city": "Langhorne", "state": "PA", "workers_approx": 800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Unsafe staffing and low wages as COVID cases surged; won a five-year contract", "hospital_system": "Trinity Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-03-08", "date_display": "Mar 8, 2021 – Jan 3, 2022", "facility": "Saint Vincent Hospital", "city": "Worcester", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 700, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "301 days", "issues": "Staffing and pay — the longest nurses' strike in Massachusetts history; the Tenet dispute became a modern reference point for hospital labor actions", "hospital_system": "Tenet Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-04-16", "date_display": "Apr 16–17", "facility": "Barton Memorial Hospital", "city": "South Lake Tahoe", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 155, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Wages, recruitment, and retention in a long-running first-contract fight", "hospital_system": "Barton Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-04-21", "date_display": "Apr 21–24", "facility": "Tyler Memorial Hospital", "city": "Tunkhannock", "state": "PA", "workers_approx": 100, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "4 days", "issues": "Staff shortages, low pay, and aging equipment; the hospital later cut inpatient services", "hospital_system": "Commonwealth Health", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-05-25", "date_display": "May 25–26", "facility": "Chinese Hospital", "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 100, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Staffing and retention; nurses later won their first union contract", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-06-01", "date_display": "Jun 1–4", "facility": "Logan Health", "city": "Kalispell", "state": "MT", "workers_approx": 650, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "First-contract fight — staffing committee, seniority, and wages; contract won in September", "hospital_system": "Logan Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-06-24", "date_display": "Jun 24", "facility": "Cook County Health (Stroger Hospital & clinics)", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 900, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day (18-day dispute)", "issues": "Persistent nursing shortage — county agreed to recruit 300 nurses with 12–31% raises", "hospital_system": "Cook County Health (public)", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-10-01", "date_display": "Oct 1 – Nov 4", "facility": "Mercy Hospital", "city": "Buffalo", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 2000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~5 weeks", "issues": "Staffing and working conditions; won 1:4 staffing ratios and higher base pay", "hospital_system": "Catholic Health (Buffalo)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-10-04", "date_display": "Oct 4", "facility": "Sutter Delta Medical Center", "city": "Antioch", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 350, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Understaffing, overwork, and stalled negotiations", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-10-05", "date_display": "Oct 5–7", "facility": "McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center", "city": "Springfield", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 400, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Outsourcing, turnover, wages, and COVID-19 protections", "hospital_system": "Quorum Health", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE-owned: GoldenTree Asset Management / Davidson Kempner investor group" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-10-17", "date_display": "Oct 17–19", "facility": "Abbott Northwestern WestHealth", "city": "Plymouth", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 50, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Holiday pay, benefits, and scheduling demands", "hospital_system": "Allina Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-11-03", "date_display": "Nov 3 – Dec 1", "facility": "Cabell Huntington Hospital", "city": "Huntington", "state": "WV", "workers_approx": 1000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "28 days", "issues": "Wages, safe staffing, and health insurance; ended with a ratified 3-year contract", "hospital_system": "Mountain Health Network", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-11-08", "date_display": "Nov 8–12", "facility": "Sutter Delta Medical Center", "city": "Antioch", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 350, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Second strike in five weeks over staffing and unfair labor practice claims", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-11-18", "date_display": "Nov 18", "facility": "UPMC hospitals", "city": "Pittsburgh", "state": "PA", "workers_approx": 100, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Union recognition, a $20 minimum wage, and healthcare costs", "hospital_system": "UPMC", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2021, "start_date_iso": "2021-12-06", "date_display": "Dec 6–11", "facility": "McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center", "city": "Springfield", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 300, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "6 days", "issues": "Second strike of 2021; won a 3-year contract in February 2022", "hospital_system": "Quorum Health", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE-owned: GoldenTree Asset Management / Davidson Kempner investor group" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-03-13", "date_display": "Mar 13–18", "facility": "Armstrong County Memorial Hospital", "city": "Kittanning", "state": "PA", "workers_approx": 200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Understaffing, recruitment, pay; first strike there in 20+ years", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-03-30", "date_display": "Mar 30–31", "facility": "AHMC Seton Medical Center", "city": "Daly City", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 300, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Understaffing, lack of support staff and PPE", "hospital_system": "AHMC Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-04-18", "date_display": "Apr 18", "facility": "Sutter Health (15+ facilities)", "city": "Northern California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 8000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + lockout", "issues": "Staffing shortage, nurse retention, health & safety protections", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-04-25", "date_display": "Apr 25–29", "facility": "Stanford & Lucile Packard Children's Hospitals", "city": "Palo Alto", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 5000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Understaffing, mandatory overtime, mental health support, pay", "hospital_system": "Stanford Medicine", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-05-09", "date_display": "May 9–13", "facility": "Cedars-Sinai Medical Center", "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 2000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Pay, staffing and working conditions (SEIU-UHW service workers)", "hospital_system": "Cedars-Sinai", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-05-18", "date_display": "May 18–20", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente mental health clinics", "city": "Honolulu", "state": "HI", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Mental health staffing and access to care", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-05-23", "date_display": "May 23–Jun 22", "facility": "Saint Michael's Medical Center", "city": "Newark", "state": "NJ", "workers_approx": 350, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "31 days", "issues": "Contract dispute (JNESO); ended when workers accepted new deal", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-06-22", "date_display": "Jun 22–23", "facility": "AHMC Seton Medical Center", "city": "Daly City", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 300, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Second strike of 2022 over staffing and patient care", "hospital_system": "AHMC Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-06-23", "date_display": "Jun 23", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center", "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Contract and staffing (California Nurses Association)", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-07-18", "date_display": "Jul 18–Aug 1", "facility": "Sequoia Hospital (Dignity Health)", "city": "Redwood City", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~2 weeks", "issues": "Fair contract (AFSCME); ended with a 4-year deal", "hospital_system": "CommonSpirit (Dignity Health)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-08-15", "date_display": "Aug 15–Oct 18", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente mental health clinics", "city": "Northern California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 2000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "10 weeks", "issues": "Mental health staffing and patient access to therapy", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-09-12", "date_display": "Sep 12–14", "facility": "16 hospitals — Minnesota Nurses Association", "city": "Twin Cities & Duluth", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 15000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Staffing and pay — largest private-sector nurses' strike in U.S. history", "hospital_system": "Multiple systems (Twin Cities)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-09-22", "date_display": "Sep 22–23", "facility": "Windham Hospital (Hartford HealthCare)", "city": "Willimantic", "state": "CT", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Nurses' contract, pay and staffing", "hospital_system": "Hartford HealthCare", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-09-26", "date_display": "Sep 26", "facility": "Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital", "city": "Santa Rosa", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Engineers' contract dispute (ESC Local 20)", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-10-03", "date_display": "Oct 3–5", "facility": "Allina Health facilities", "city": "Minneapolis", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Pay and staffing (SEIU Healthcare MN & IA)", "hospital_system": "Allina Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-10-24", "date_display": "Oct 24–25", "facility": "Windham Hospital (WCMH United Employees)", "city": "Willimantic", "state": "CT", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Second Windham strike of 2022 — pay and staffing", "hospital_system": "Hartford HealthCare", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2022, "start_date_iso": "2022-10-24", "date_display": "Oct 24–28", "facility": "Alta Bates Summit Medical Center", "city": "Oakland & Berkeley", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Staffing and contract (California Nurses Association)", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-01-09", "date_display": "Jan 9–11", "facility": "Mount Sinai Hospital & Montefiore Medical Center", "city": "New York City", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 7000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Staffing shortages and burnout; won 19% raises over 3 years and staffing enforcement", "hospital_system": "Mount Sinai / Montefiore", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-01-23", "date_display": "Jan", "facility": "MyMichigan Alma & McLaren Central", "city": "Alma / Mount Pleasant", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": 250, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Alleged bad-faith bargaining; deals reached before walkout", "hospital_system": "MyMichigan / McLaren", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: McLaren EDs staffed via TeamHealth (Blackstone)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-02-27", "date_display": "Feb 27", "facility": "South Shore University Hospital (Northwell)", "city": "Bay Shore", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 800, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Pay and safe staffing ratios; tentative deal averted strike", "hospital_system": "Northwell Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-03-20", "date_display": "Mar 20", "facility": "Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital", "city": "Valencia", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 700, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Alleged unfair labor practices, low wages, high turnover", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-03-28", "date_display": "Mar 28", "facility": "MarinHealth Medical Center", "city": "Greenbrae", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Patient care and staffing; 16.5% raise deal averted strike", "hospital_system": "MarinHealth", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-05-02", "date_display": "May 2", "facility": "John Muir Behavioral Health Center", "city": "Concord", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 78, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Hazardous staffing levels, working conditions, pay", "hospital_system": "John Muir Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-05-02", "date_display": "May 2", "facility": "St. Rose Hospital", "city": "Hayward", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 200, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Staffing and pay; called off after progress in negotiations", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-05-11", "date_display": "May 11", "facility": "PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital", "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Understaffing and missed breaks; tentative deal averted strike", "hospital_system": "PIH Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-05-22", "date_display": "May 22", "facility": "HCA Healthcare (5 hospitals)", "city": "Southern California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 3000, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Staffing crisis; 15% raise deal averted strike", "hospital_system": "HCA Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-06-12", "date_display": "Jun 12", "facility": "St. Charles Health System", "city": "Bend", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 1000, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Staffing, meal breaks, pay; marathon talks averted strike", "hospital_system": "St. Charles Health System", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-06-12", "date_display": "Jun 12", "facility": "NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist", "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 1250, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Staffing cuts; 18% raises over 3 years averted strike", "hospital_system": "NewYork-Presbyterian", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-06-19", "date_display": "Jun 19–23", "facility": "Providence Portland, Seaside & Home Health/Hospice", "city": "Portland", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 1800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Unsafe ratios, pay, alleged unfair labor practices — Portland's first nurses' strike in 22 years", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": "asc-jun23", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-06-27", "date_display": "Jun 27", "facility": "Ascension Seton Medical Center", "city": "Austin", "state": "TX", "workers_approx": 900, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + lockout", "issues": "Unsafe staffing, retention — largest nurses' strike in Texas history", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": "asc-jun23", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-06-27", "date_display": "Jun 27", "facility": "Ascension Via Christi St. Francis", "city": "Wichita", "state": "KS", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + lockout", "issues": "Same-day Ascension strike over staffing and first contracts", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-07-12", "date_display": "Jul 12–18", "facility": "Oahu Care Facility", "city": "Honolulu", "state": "HI", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "Wages, fair contract, alleged unfair labor practices", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-07-19", "date_display": "Jul 19", "facility": "SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital", "city": "St. Louis", "state": "MO", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "picket", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Informational picket over chronic staffing crisis and workplace violence", "hospital_system": "SSM Health", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Hospitalist staffing contracted to Sound Physicians (Summit Partners)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-07-31", "date_display": "Jul 31–Aug 10", "facility": "Loretto Hospital", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "11 days", "issues": "Below-standard wages and equipment; won new 3-year contract", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-08-03", "date_display": "Aug 3–4", "facility": "Rochester General Hospital", "city": "Rochester", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 900, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios and pay", "hospital_system": "Rochester Regional Health", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Urgent/immediate care centers staffed by TeamHealth (Blackstone) clinicians since 2016" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-08-04", "date_display": "Aug 4–Dec", "facility": "Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital", "city": "New Brunswick", "state": "NJ", "workers_approx": 1700, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~4 months", "issues": "Staffing ratios, pay, benefits — one of the longest nurses' strikes of the decade", "hospital_system": "RWJBarnabas Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-08-04", "date_display": "Aug 4", "facility": "Trinity Health Grand Haven", "city": "Grand Haven", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": 200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Wages, safe staffing, alleged bad-faith bargaining", "hospital_system": "Trinity Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-08-18", "date_display": "Aug 18–28", "facility": "Garfield Medical Center", "city": "Monterey Park", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "10 days", "issues": "Short staffing, workplace-violence protections, faulty equipment", "hospital_system": "AHMC Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-08-22", "date_display": "Aug 22–23", "facility": "Ascension Saint Joseph", "city": "Joliet", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Understaffing and low wages", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-09-06", "date_display": "Sep 6", "facility": "Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital", "city": "Marina del Rey", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 250, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Bargaining rights and benefits", "hospital_system": "Cedars-Sinai", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-09-11", "date_display": "Sep 11–13", "facility": "Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital", "city": "Rochester", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": 270, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Wages, staffing, unsettled contracts (nurses & rad techs)", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-09-25", "date_display": "Sep 25", "facility": "SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital", "city": "St. Louis", "state": "MO", "workers_approx": 500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "24 hours", "issues": "Patient care, unsafe staffing, workplace violence", "hospital_system": "SSM Health", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Hospitalist staffing contracted to Sound Physicians (Summit Partners)" }, { "event_id": "kp2023", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-04", "date_display": "Oct 4–6", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (multi-state)", "city": "California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 75000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Largest healthcare strike in U.S. history — staffing shortage and pay; won 21% raises over 4 years", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "kp2023", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-04", "date_display": "Oct 4–6", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (multi-state)", "city": "Colorado", "state": "CO", "workers_approx": 75000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Part of the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "kp2023", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-04", "date_display": "Oct 4–6", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (multi-state)", "city": "Oregon", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 75000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Part of the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "kp2023", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-04", "date_display": "Oct 4–6", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (multi-state)", "city": "Washington", "state": "WA", "workers_approx": 75000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Part of the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "kp2023", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-04", "date_display": "Oct 4–6", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (multi-state)", "city": "Virginia", "state": "VA", "workers_approx": 75000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Part of the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "kp2023", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-04", "date_display": "Oct 4–6", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (multi-state)", "city": "Washington D.C.", "state": "DC", "workers_approx": 75000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Part of the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-09", "date_display": "Oct 9–13", "facility": "St. Francis Medical Center", "city": "Lynwood", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 1500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Staffing and wages; contract ratified in December", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-18", "date_display": "Oct", "facility": "Allegheny General Hospital", "city": "Pittsburgh", "state": "PA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Pay and ratios; contract ratified before strike date set", "hospital_system": "Allegheny Health Network", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-23", "date_display": "Oct 23–27", "facility": "Providence St. Joseph Medical Center", "city": "Burbank", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 700, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Alleged bad-faith bargaining and unfair labor practices", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-23", "date_display": "Oct 23–27", "facility": "PeaceHealth Southwest & St. John", "city": "Vancouver / Longview", "state": "WA", "workers_approx": 1300, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Pay and staffing standards; won 20–55% raises", "hospital_system": "PeaceHealth", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: ED physicians at St. Joseph (Bellingham, WA) employed by TeamHealth (Blackstone)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-10-23", "date_display": "Oct 23–27", "facility": "Rochester General Hospital (2nd action)", "city": "Rochester", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 900, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Second strike averted by 42-month contract with raises", "hospital_system": "Rochester Regional Health", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Urgent/immediate care centers staffed by TeamHealth (Blackstone) clinicians since 2016" }, { "event_id": "kpnw23", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-11-01", "date_display": "Nov 1–18", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente imaging & pharmacy techs", "city": "Portland", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 870, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~3 weeks", "issues": "Alleged unfair labor practices", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "kpnw23", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-11-01", "date_display": "Nov 1–18", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente imaging & pharmacy techs", "city": "SW Washington", "state": "WA", "workers_approx": 870, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~3 weeks", "issues": "Alleged unfair labor practices", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-11-14", "date_display": "Nov 14–19", "facility": "Providence Regional Medical Center", "city": "Everett", "state": "WA", "workers_approx": 1300, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Understaffing and pay for understaffed shifts", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-11-14", "date_display": "Nov 14–15", "facility": "Howard Brown Health", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 366, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Wages, layoffs protection, doubled patient loads", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-11-21", "date_display": "Nov 21–23", "facility": "Ascension Saint Joseph (2nd strike)", "city": "Joliet", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 517, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Pay and staffing levels", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-11-22", "date_display": "Nov 22–27", "facility": "HCA Riverside, West Hills & Los Robles", "city": "Riverside / Thousand Oaks", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 2400, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Workplace violence, ratio-law compliance; won 16.5–17% raises", "hospital_system": "HCA Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": "asc-dec23", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-12-06", "date_display": "Dec 6", "facility": "Ascension Seton Medical Center (2nd strike)", "city": "Austin", "state": "TX", "workers_approx": 800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + lockout", "issues": "Unsafe conditions; first union contract ratified Mar 2024", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": "asc-dec23", "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-12-06", "date_display": "Dec 6", "facility": "Ascension Via Christi St. Francis (2nd strike)", "city": "Wichita", "state": "KS", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + lockout", "issues": "Second same-day Ascension strike over staffing", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-12-24", "date_display": "Dec 24–27", "facility": "Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital", "city": "Marina del Rey", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 250, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Bargaining rights; won 4-year contract Feb 2024", "hospital_system": "Cedars-Sinai", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2023, "start_date_iso": "2023-12-27", "date_display": "Dec 27–29", "facility": "SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital", "city": "St. Louis", "state": "MO", "workers_approx": 500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Staffing and safety plans; third SLUH action of 2023", "hospital_system": "SSM Health", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Hospitalist staffing contracted to Sound Physicians (Summit Partners)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-01-03", "date_display": "Jan 3", "facility": "Montefiore Nyack, New Rochelle & Mount Vernon", "city": "Lower Hudson Valley", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 800, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Staffing and pay; 3-year contracts ratified, strike averted", "hospital_system": "Montefiore Health System", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-01-15", "date_display": "Jan 15", "facility": "University of Chicago Medicine", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 200, "action_type": "picket", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "MLK Day rally over patient ratios and retention", "hospital_system": "UChicago Medicine", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-01-21", "date_display": "Jan 21–28", "facility": "Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children", "city": "Honolulu", "state": "HI", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "Working conditions and staffing", "hospital_system": "Hawaii Pacific Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-02-08", "date_display": "Feb 8–12", "facility": "Ascension Saint Joseph", "city": "Joliet", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "4 days", "issues": "Third strike since Aug 2023; contract ratified May 2024", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-02-10", "date_display": "Feb 10–24", "facility": "PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Home Care", "city": "Springfield", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 100, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 weeks", "issues": "Hospice nurses' pay and safety; contract won in May", "hospital_system": "PeaceHealth", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: ED physicians at St. Joseph (Bellingham, WA) employed by TeamHealth (Blackstone)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-03-14", "date_display": "Mar 14", "facility": "University of Chicago Medicine", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 2800, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Understaffing; 4-year contract deal averted strike", "hospital_system": "UChicago Medicine", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-03-25", "date_display": "Mar 25–26", "facility": "Seton Medical Center", "city": "Daly City", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 430, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Health insurance takeaways; coverage won back in October", "hospital_system": "AHMC Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-03-28", "date_display": "Mar 28", "facility": "MarinHealth Medical Center", "city": "Greenbrae", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Patient care and retention; tentative deal averted strike", "hospital_system": "MarinHealth", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-04-02", "date_display": "Apr 2–4", "facility": "Santa Clara County health system", "city": "San Jose", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 3750, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Pay and workplace protections; 15% raises won in May", "hospital_system": "Santa Clara County (public)", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-04-15", "date_display": "Apr 15–20", "facility": "MyMichigan Medical Center", "city": "Sault Ste. Marie", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": 120, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Wages and benefits; new contract raised top pay to $50/hr", "hospital_system": "MyMichigan Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-04-16", "date_display": "Apr 16", "facility": "MarinHealth Medical Center (techs)", "city": "Greenbrae", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 100, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Technologists' contract dispute", "hospital_system": "MarinHealth", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-04-18", "date_display": "Apr 18", "facility": "Ascension St. John ED physicians", "city": "Detroit", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "24 hours", "issues": "Rare physicians' strike over ER staffing and conditions", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-04-23", "date_display": "Apr 23–25", "facility": "Sutter Center for Psychiatry", "city": "Sacramento", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 150, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Psychiatric staffing and pay", "hospital_system": "Sutter Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-05-24", "date_display": "May 24", "facility": "Ascension Genesys Hospital", "city": "Grand Blanc", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": 800, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Forced overtime and ratios; tentative deal averted strike", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-06-18", "date_display": "Jun 18", "facility": "SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital", "city": "St. Louis", "state": "MO", "workers_approx": 500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Fair contract after 12 months without one; 17% average raises won in July", "hospital_system": "SSM Health", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Hospitalist staffing contracted to Sound Physicians (Summit Partners)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-06-18", "date_display": "Jun 18–20", "facility": "Six Providence hospitals", "city": "Portland / Medford / Hood River", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 3000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Staffing-law compliance, pay, healthcare benefits", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-07-14", "date_display": "Jul 14–20", "facility": "UChicago Medicine (skilled trades)", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "SEIU 73 trades workers' contract", "hospital_system": "UChicago Medicine", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-08-19", "date_display": "Aug 19–25", "facility": "UI Health", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 1300, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "Staffing, safety, pay", "hospital_system": "UI Health", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-08-20", "date_display": "Aug 20–27", "facility": "Kadlec Regional Medical Center", "city": "Richland", "state": "WA", "workers_approx": 1100, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "8 days", "issues": "Pay and staffing (SEIU)", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-09-13", "date_display": "Sep 13", "facility": "Kapiolani Medical Center", "city": "Honolulu", "state": "HI", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + 2-week lockout", "issues": "Staffing; 10 arrested at demonstration; contract won in October", "hospital_system": "Hawaii Pacific Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-10-21", "date_display": "Oct 21 → 2025", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente mental health (SoCal)", "city": "Los Angeles / San Diego", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 2400, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "Open-ended, ~6 months", "issues": "Mental health staffing, pensions, patient access", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-10-25", "date_display": "Oct 25", "facility": "University Medical Center", "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + lockout", "issues": "First-contract fight begins — safety and staffing", "hospital_system": "LCMC Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-11-01", "date_display": "Nov 1", "facility": "St. Joseph Medical Center", "city": "Tacoma", "state": "WA", "workers_approx": 1250, "action_type": "picket", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Informational picket; landmark contract won in December", "hospital_system": "CommonSpirit (VMFH)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-11-04", "date_display": "Nov 4 → Jan 2025", "facility": "Essentia Health", "city": "Deer River", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 70, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days, then 49-day strike", "issues": "Rural staffing and pay; 49-day strike ended Jan 2025", "hospital_system": "Essentia Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-11-04", "date_display": "Nov 4–6", "facility": "Maui Health (Maui Memorial, Kula, Lanai)", "city": "Wailuku", "state": "HI", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Pay and staffing across Maui facilities", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-11-13", "date_display": "Nov 13–16", "facility": "UI Health (2nd strike)", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 1300, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "4 days", "issues": "Second strike since August; tentative deal reached", "hospital_system": "UI Health", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-11-20", "date_display": "Nov 20–21", "facility": "UCSF (AFSCME & UPTE)", "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "University health workers' pay and staffing", "hospital_system": "University of California", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2024, "start_date_iso": "2024-12-17", "date_display": "Dec 17", "facility": "Newton-Wellesley Hospital", "city": "Newton", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 1500, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Insurance costs; 15.5% raises averted 1-day strike", "hospital_system": "Mass General Brigham", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-01-10", "date_display": "Jan 10–Feb 24", "facility": "Providence — 8 hospitals & 6 clinics", "city": "Oregon (statewide)", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 5000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "46 days", "issues": "Largest strike in Oregon history — staffing, pay; won 20–42% raises", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-01-17", "date_display": "Jan 17", "facility": "San Joaquin General Hospital", "city": "French Camp", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 1000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Unilateral changes outside bargaining; contract won in March", "hospital_system": "San Joaquin County (public)", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-02-05", "date_display": "Feb 5–6", "facility": "University Medical Center", "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days + 3-day lockout", "issues": "Stalled first-contract talks, disaster preparedness", "hospital_system": "LCMC Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-02-17", "date_display": "Feb 17–21", "facility": "Geisinger Wyoming Valley & Luzerne County sites", "city": "Wilkes-Barre", "state": "PA", "workers_approx": 800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Understaffing and burnout; won 13–26% raises and safety upgrades", "hospital_system": "Geisinger", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-03-17", "date_display": "Mar 17", "facility": "Northwell South Shore University Hospital", "city": "Bay Shore", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 900, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Staffing and AI oversight; first AI-review contract in NY averted strike", "hospital_system": "Northwell Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-03-20", "date_display": "Mar 20", "facility": "Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital", "city": "Plymouth", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 420, "action_type": "picket", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Informational picket and strike authorization over staffing and insurance; the later contract raised pay about 13.6–27.4%, depending on experience", "hospital_system": "Beth Israel Lahey Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-03-24", "date_display": "Mar 24–27", "facility": "Santa Clara County lab workers", "city": "San Jose", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Lab staffing and pay", "hospital_system": "Santa Clara County (public)", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-04-19", "date_display": "Apr 19", "facility": "University Medical Center", "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Union-busting allegations, workplace safety", "hospital_system": "LCMC Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-04-25", "date_display": "Apr 25", "facility": "Stanford Health Care & Lucile Packard (CRONA)", "city": "Palo Alto", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 5000, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Staffing and wages; 12% raises + AI safeguards averted strike", "hospital_system": "Stanford Medicine", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-04-28", "date_display": "Apr 28–29", "facility": "LA County health workers (SEIU 721)", "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 55000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "County-wide walkout including public health and hospital staff", "hospital_system": "LA County (public)", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-05-01", "date_display": "May 1 (also Feb & Apr)", "facility": "University of California medical centers", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 55884, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "Series of strikes", "issues": "UPTE + AFSCME healthcare, research & service workers — staffing and pay", "hospital_system": "University of California", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-05-01", "date_display": "May 1", "facility": "University Medical Center", "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Workplace violence and first-contract fight", "hospital_system": "LCMC Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-05-13", "date_display": "May 13", "facility": "UR Medicine Home Care", "city": "Rochester", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 110, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Caseloads and insurance; 3-year deal averted 5-day strike", "hospital_system": "UR Medicine", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-05-15", "date_display": "May 15–Aug 18", "facility": "Butler Hospital", "city": "Providence", "state": "RI", "workers_approx": 800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~3 months", "issues": "Workplace safety and wages — longest hospital strike in Rhode Island history", "hospital_system": "Care New England", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-05-20", "date_display": "May 20–27", "facility": "Five Western NY nursing homes", "city": "Buffalo area", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 1000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "Bad-faith bargaining, staffing, wages at for-profit facilities", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "mc-may25", "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-05-22", "date_display": "May 22", "facility": "MemorialCare Long Beach & Miller Children's", "city": "Long Beach", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 2200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Staffing, workplace violence, ER wait times", "hospital_system": "MemorialCare", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "mc-may25", "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-05-22", "date_display": "May 22", "facility": "Alhambra Hospital Medical Center", "city": "Alhambra", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Same-day strike over staffing and patient care", "hospital_system": "AHMC Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-05-26", "date_display": "May 26–30", "facility": "West Anaheim Medical Center", "city": "Anaheim", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 163, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Below-market wages and turnover; contract won in July", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-05-27", "date_display": "May 27–Jun 1", "facility": "UnityPoint Health-Meriter", "city": "Madison", "state": "WI", "workers_approx": 950, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Staffing, security, pay; 2-year deal ended strike", "hospital_system": "UnityPoint Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-06-09", "date_display": "Jun 9–14", "facility": "Henry Ford Rochester Hospital", "city": "Rochester", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": 350, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Pay and staffing", "hospital_system": "Henry Ford Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-06-25", "date_display": "Ended Jun 30", "facility": "UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital", "city": "Oakland", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "Multi-day", "issues": "NUHW workers' contract dispute", "hospital_system": "University of California", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-07-02", "date_display": "Jul 2", "facility": "Providence hospice workers", "city": "Petaluma / Santa Rosa", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Hospice staffing and pay", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-07-07", "date_display": "Jul 7–10", "facility": "McLaren Macomb", "city": "Mount Clemens", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": 700, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Contract, staffing and pay (OPEIU nurses & service workers)", "hospital_system": "McLaren Health Care", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: EDs incl. Flint, Greater Lansing, Central Michigan & Bay Regional staffed via TeamHealth (Blackstone)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-07-08", "date_display": "Jul 8", "facility": "Nine Twin Cities hospitals", "city": "Minneapolis–St. Paul", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 12000, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Staffing, violence protections; deals on Jul 3 averted strike", "hospital_system": "Multiple systems (Twin Cities)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-07-08", "date_display": "Jul 8", "facility": "Essentia & Aspirus St. Luke's hospitals", "city": "Duluth / Superior", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 2000, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Hospital-nurse strike averted by tentative agreements", "hospital_system": "Essentia / Aspirus", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-07-08", "date_display": "Jul 8–11", "facility": "HealthPartners Clinic", "city": "Stillwater", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 80, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "4 days", "issues": "First-contract fight (LPNs, medical assistants)", "hospital_system": "HealthPartners", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-07-08", "date_display": "Jul 8–23", "facility": "Essentia clinics, hospice & APPs", "city": "Duluth", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 700, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~2 weeks", "issues": "Historic first APP strike — clinic nurses and advanced practice providers", "hospital_system": "Essentia Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-07-15", "date_display": "Jul 15–16", "facility": "University Medical Center", "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Alleged retaliation against union nurse leaders", "hospital_system": "LCMC Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-07-22", "date_display": "Jul 22 & 25", "facility": "UC San Diego & UCSF (UPTE)", "city": "San Diego / San Francisco", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1-day actions", "issues": "Layoffs at university medical centers", "hospital_system": "University of California", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-07-29", "date_display": "Jul 29", "facility": "Hospice East Bay", "city": "Pleasant Hill", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 80, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Rising caseloads, understaffing, first contract", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-08-12", "date_display": "Aug 12", "facility": "West Anaheim Medical Center", "city": "Anaheim", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 360, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Safe staffing and turnover (RNs)", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-09-01", "date_display": "Sep 1 → 2026", "facility": "Henry Ford Genesys Hospital", "city": "Grand Blanc", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": 750, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "6+ months, ongoing into 2026", "issues": "Nurse-to-patient ratios and pay — one of the longest US nurse strikes", "hospital_system": "Henry Ford Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-09-08", "date_display": "Sep 8", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (20+ NorCal hospitals)", "city": "Northern California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Nurse midwives & anesthetists — staffing, burnout, first contract", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-09-29", "date_display": "Sep 29", "facility": "Providence Santa Rosa & Petaluma (engineers)", "city": "Santa Rosa", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "Multi-day", "issues": "Stationary engineers' contract (IUOE Local 39)", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-10-13", "date_display": "Oct 13", "facility": "Temple University Hospital & Women's", "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA", "workers_approx": 2600, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Safety and healthcare costs; contracts ratified 3 days before strike", "hospital_system": "Temple Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "kp2025", "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-10-14", "date_display": "Oct 14–19", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (multi-state)", "city": "California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 31000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Largest strike in UNAC/UHCP history — wages vs. inflation, staffing", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "kp2025", "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-10-14", "date_display": "Oct 14–19", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (multi-state)", "city": "Hawaii", "state": "HI", "workers_approx": 31000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Part of 31,000-worker Kaiser strike", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "kp2025", "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-10-14", "date_display": "Oct 14–19", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente (multi-state)", "city": "Oregon", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 31000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Part of 31,000-worker Kaiser strike", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-10-17", "date_display": "Oct 17", "facility": "Kapiolani Medical Center (Teamsters)", "city": "Honolulu", "state": "HI", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Support staff contract dispute", "hospital_system": "Hawaii Pacific Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-10-30", "date_display": "Oct 30", "facility": "Six Tenet Healthcare hospitals", "city": "San Ramon / Modesto / Palm Springs +", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 3100, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Patient care and safe staffing at six CA hospitals", "hospital_system": "Tenet Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-10-30", "date_display": "Oct 30", "facility": "Keck Hospital of USC & USC Norris", "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 1800, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "24 hours", "issues": "Missed breaks, staffing, contract", "hospital_system": "Keck Medicine of USC", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "allina25", "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-11-05", "date_display": "Nov 5", "facility": "Allina Health clinics (doctors & APPs)", "city": "Twin Cities", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Historic physicians' ULP strike — first-contract fight", "hospital_system": "Allina Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "allina25", "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-11-05", "date_display": "Nov 5", "facility": "Allina Health clinics (doctors & APPs)", "city": "Western Wisconsin", "state": "WI", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Part of the Allina physicians' strike", "hospital_system": "Allina Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-11-11", "date_display": "Nov 11–13", "facility": "University Medical Center", "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Fifth strike since Oct 2024 — retention and patient care", "hospital_system": "LCMC Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-11-16", "date_display": "Nov 17–18", "facility": "University of California (19 med centers)", "city": "Statewide", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 25000, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Retention, floating limits, AI safeguards; deal averted 2-day strike", "hospital_system": "University of California", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-11-18", "date_display": "Nov 18", "facility": "Cooley Dickinson Hospital", "city": "Northampton", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 399, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Benefits and staffing; tentative deal averted 1-day strike", "hospital_system": "Mass General Brigham", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-11-18", "date_display": "Nov 18–19", "facility": "Houlton Regional Hospital", "city": "Houlton", "state": "ME", "workers_approx": 55, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "2 days", "issues": "Staffing, ED conditions, retention", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-11-26", "date_display": "Nov 26–29", "facility": "Sharp HealthCare", "city": "San Diego", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 5827, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Patient care, wages, sick leave; 4-year contract ratified Jan 2026", "hospital_system": "Sharp HealthCare", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-12-02", "date_display": "Dec 2–30", "facility": "Legacy Health (advanced practice providers)", "city": "Portland", "state": "OR", "workers_approx": 135, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~4 weeks", "issues": "First APP strike in Oregon — compensation, unpaid work, patient access", "hospital_system": "Legacy Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2025, "start_date_iso": "2025-12-22", "date_display": "Dec 22", "facility": "Boston Medical Center Brighton", "city": "Brighton", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 650, "action_type": "authorized", "duration": "3-day strike authorized", "issues": "97% voted to authorize a three-day strike over proposed staffing reductions, benefit cuts, and wage concerns", "hospital_system": "Boston Medical Center Health System", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-01-09", "date_display": "Jan 9", "facility": "Three South Florida HSA hospitals", "city": "Miami area", "state": "FL", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Deal reached before planned strike", "hospital_system": "Healthcare Systems of America", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE legacy: operates former Steward hospitals (Cerberus Capital)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-01-12", "date_display": "Jan 12", "facility": "Seven NYC safety-net hospitals", "city": "New York City", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Contract deals averted safety-net hospital strike", "hospital_system": "NYC Health + Hospitals", "ownership_code": "gov", "ownership_label": "Public / government", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-01-12", "date_display": "Jan 12", "facility": "Three Northwell Long Island hospitals", "city": "Long Island", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Tentative agreements averted strike", "hospital_system": "Northwell Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-01-12", "date_display": "Jan 12–Feb 21", "facility": "Mount Sinai, Montefiore & NewYork-Presbyterian", "city": "New York City", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 15000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "41 days", "issues": "Staffing ratios and pay — one of the largest nurse strikes in NYC history", "hospital_system": "Mount Sinai / Montefiore / NYP", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-01-17", "date_display": "Jan 17 → Mar", "facility": "MultiCare Yakima Memorial", "city": "Yakima", "state": "WA", "workers_approx": 170, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~2 months", "issues": "Technicians' pay and staffing (Teamsters 760)", "hospital_system": "MultiCare", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "kp2026", "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-01-26", "date_display": "Jan 26–Feb 24", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente", "city": "California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 31000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~4 weeks", "issues": "UNAC/UHCP nurses and professionals — staffing and wages", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": "kp2026", "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-01-26", "date_display": "Jan 26–Feb 24", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente", "city": "Hawaii", "state": "HI", "workers_approx": 31000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "~4 weeks", "issues": "Part of the 31,000-worker Kaiser strike", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-01-27", "date_display": "Jan 27–30", "facility": "Kindred Hospitals Brea & Westminster", "city": "Brea / Westminster", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 315, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Pay and staffing at long-term acute care hospitals", "hospital_system": "Kindred (ScionHealth)", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE-owned: TPG & Welsh Carson legacy (now ScionHealth)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-09", "date_display": "Ended Feb 12", "facility": "Kaiser SoCal pharmacy & lab (UFCW)", "city": "Southern California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 3000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Pharmacy and lab staffing and pay", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-16", "date_display": "Feb 16–21", "facility": "Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana", "city": "Los Angeles (Tarzana)", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 900, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Unsafe staffing and working conditions (SEIU 121RN)", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-17", "date_display": "Feb 17–20", "facility": "West Anaheim Medical Center", "city": "Anaheim", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 360, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Patient safety — third West Anaheim strike since 2025", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-18", "date_display": "Feb 18", "facility": "AHMC Seton Medical Center", "city": "Daly City", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Tentative agreement averted 1-day strike", "hospital_system": "AHMC Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-18", "date_display": "Feb 18", "facility": "Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center", "city": "Reno", "state": "NV", "workers_approx": 350, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Part of 2,100-worker Prime Healthcare actions across CA & NV", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-18", "date_display": "Feb 18–19", "facility": "MarinHealth Medical Center", "city": "Greenbrae", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 1200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day + lockout", "issues": "Healthcare benefits — 700 RNs joined by 500 Teamsters service workers", "hospital_system": "MarinHealth", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - ED staffed by Vituity (physician-owned partnership, not PE)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-19", "date_display": "Feb 19", "facility": "Centinela Hospital Medical Center", "city": "Inglewood", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 800, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Short staffing and wages; tentative deal averted strike", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-19", "date_display": "Feb 19–20", "facility": "Shasta Regional Medical Center", "city": "Redding", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Unsafe staffing and patient safety", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-19", "date_display": "Feb 19–26", "facility": "Keck Hospital of USC & USC Norris", "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 1400, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "7 days", "issues": "Healthcare plan restructuring and staffing", "hospital_system": "Keck Medicine of USC", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-03-02", "date_display": "Mar 2–6", "facility": "Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center", "city": "Burbank", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 1000, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Unsafe staffing and working conditions", "hospital_system": "Providence", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: Home health & hospice moved to JV run by PE-backed Compassus (2025); flagged by nurses unions & Oregon regulators" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-03-18", "date_display": "Mar 18", "facility": "Kaiser Permanente Northern California", "city": "Northern California", "state": "CA", "workers_approx": 25400, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "24 hours", "issues": "23,000 nurses' sympathy strike with 2,400 mental health workers — staffing and AI in mental healthcare", "hospital_system": "Kaiser Permanente", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found - physicians self-employed via Permanente Medical Groups" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-03-23", "date_display": "Mar 23", "facility": "Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center", "city": "Bangor", "state": "ME", "workers_approx": 900, "action_type": "averted", "duration": "—", "issues": "Safe staffing and retention; tentative deal averted strike", "hospital_system": "Northern Light Health", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: ER & hospitalist physicians at four Maine hospitals outsourced to TeamHealth (Blackstone) since 2019" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-02-05", "date_display": "Feb 5", "facility": "Boston Medical Center South", "city": "Brockton", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 475, "action_type": "authorized", "duration": "3-day strike authorized", "issues": "99% voted to authorize a three-day strike over staffing, benefits, wages, and retention", "hospital_system": "Boston Medical Center Health System", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": "bmc-1199-2026", "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-03-09", "date_display": "Mar 9 – May 12", "facility": "Boston Medical Center Brighton & South (1199SEIU)", "city": "Brighton / Brockton", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 1400, "action_type": "settlement", "duration": "One-day strike averted", "issues": "Workers authorized a one-day strike planned for May 1, then ratified a three-year contract protecting healthcare and benefits with wage gains", "hospital_system": "Boston Medical Center Health System", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-04-30", "date_display": "Apr 30 – May 3", "facility": "Boston Medical Center South", "city": "Brockton", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 475, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "MNA nurses and healthcare professionals struck over staffing, wages, and major increases in health-benefit costs", "hospital_system": "Boston Medical Center Health System", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-05-01", "date_display": "May 1–5", "facility": "University Medical Center", "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "5 days", "issues": "Sixth strike since Oct 2024 — bad-faith bargaining allegations", "hospital_system": "LCMC Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-05-26", "date_display": "May 26–29", "facility": "Houlton Regional Hospital", "city": "Houlton", "state": "ME", "workers_approx": 55, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "4 days", "issues": "Staffing and retention — second Houlton strike in 7 months", "hospital_system": "Independent / other", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-06-08", "date_display": "Jun 8", "facility": "Boston Medical Center South", "city": "Brockton", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 475, "action_type": "picket", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Informational picket — not a strike — as contract talks remained stalled over staffing, pay, benefits, and retention", "hospital_system": "Boston Medical Center Health System", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-06-11", "date_display": "Jun 11", "facility": "St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "workers_approx": 400, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Union recognition drive at Prime Healthcare hospital", "hospital_system": "Prime Healthcare", "ownership_code": "fp", "ownership_label": "For-profit / publicly traded", "pe_contract": "n/a" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-07-01", "date_display": "Jul 1", "facility": "Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center resident physicians", "city": "Boston", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 811, "action_type": "settlement", "duration": "First union contract", "issues": "Residents and fellows ratified their first union contract, with compensation gains reported at roughly 13–21% depending on training year", "hospital_system": "Beth Israel Lahey Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-07-02", "date_display": "Jul 2", "facility": "UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus", "city": "Worcester", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 1250, "action_type": "authorized", "duration": "14-day strike authorized", "issues": "Nurses voted 1,233–17 to authorize a 14-day strike over staffing, workplace safety, and retention; no strike date was set", "hospital_system": "UMass Memorial Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-07-03", "date_display": "Jul 3–6", "facility": "MyMichigan Medical Center Alma", "city": "Alma", "state": "MI", "workers_approx": 178, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "3 days", "issues": "Unfair labor practice strike — contract expired in February; final offer froze first-year pay for many nurses", "hospital_system": "MyMichigan Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-07-06", "date_display": "Jul 6", "facility": "Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital", "city": "Baltimore", "state": "MD", "workers_approx": 600, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day", "issues": "Staffing-hour cuts and unsafe floating of nurses to unfamiliar units; first-contract fight since 2024", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-07-06", "date_display": "Jul 6", "facility": "Ascension Via Christi St. Francis & St. Joseph", "city": "Wichita", "state": "KS", "workers_approx": 1200, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1 day (out until Jul 10)", "issues": "Workplace violence protections after serious safety incidents, plus safe staffing and retention", "hospital_system": "Ascension", "ownership_code": "pe", "ownership_label": "PE-backed / PE-linked", "pe_contract": "PE contract: IL hospitalists via SCP Health (Onex); WI ED/ICU via TeamHealth (Blackstone); revenue cycle via R1 RCM (TowerBrook/CD&R)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-07-06", "date_display": "Jul 6", "facility": "Abbott Northwestern Hospital & Allina corporate offices", "city": "Minneapolis", "state": "MN", "workers_approx": null, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "—", "issues": "SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa members struck outside Abbott Northwestern and Allina Health headquarters", "hospital_system": "Allina Health", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-07-08", "date_display": "Jul 8", "facility": "Brigham and Women's Hospital & MGB Home Care", "city": "Boston", "state": "MA", "workers_approx": 4500, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "1-day strike + 4-day lockout", "issues": "Largest healthcare strike in Massachusetts history — staffing, wages, and health insurance costs; workers were locked out after the walkout", "hospital_system": "Mass General Brigham", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" }, { "event_id": null, "year": 2026, "start_date_iso": "2026-07-13", "date_display": "Jul 13 (planned)", "facility": "St. Charles Hospital", "city": "Port Jefferson", "state": "NY", "workers_approx": 300, "action_type": "strike", "duration": "planned", "issues": "Planned strike over nurse-to-patient staffing ratios after a 99% strike authorization vote", "hospital_system": "Catholic Health (Long Island)", "ownership_code": "np", "ownership_label": "Nonprofit", "pe_contract": "None found in public reporting (as of Jul 2026)" } ]