Subsidiary Highmark Inc., which includes its Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance plans, took the biggest hit with 159 people furloughed in Western Pennsylvania and Erie.
A strike by Cleveland Clinic Akron General nurses has been averted after the Professional Staff Nurses Association reached a tentative contract agreement Monday with the hospital.
Nurses at UChicago Medicine announced Monday they will go on a one-day strike March 14 to call attention to staffing concerns amid a breakdown in contract negotiations.