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• Hospitals, workers reach tentative agreement

  August 11, 2010 in City Unionized health care workers at Deaconess Medical Center and Valley Hospital and Medical Center will vote on a new labor contract Thursday and Friday. Details of the tentative agreement that … 48

• Wash. high court: Can’t order governor to pay unions

  April 8, 2010 in City The state Supreme Court says it can’t force the governor to include a public employee union’s pay raises in the state budget. 1

• Hospital owner’s dispute with union to go before judge

  September 4, 2009 in City on Page A8 Almost a year of failed bargaining between Community Health Systems Inc. and its 1,100 unionized employees will be addressed in a hearing next month by an administrative law judge. The …

• Hospital, union spar over staffing

  May 10, 2008 in City on Page A1 Union nurses at Deaconess Medical Center contend that layoffs and low morale have eroded patient care and safety and demand management rehire nursing assistants to preserve the core mission of …