Unionized nurses at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center have accepted a new contract, the medical center announced today.

Financial details of the four-year contract weren't released. The contract covers 1,200 registered nurses. They are represented by the Service Employees International Union.

After a favorable ruling by the National labor Relations Board, registered nurses at Community Medical Center finally got their union last summer.

And all it took was about 10 years and attempts by three different unions.

Now on to the nest painstaking process for the 450 newly minted members: negotiating a contract.

Jason Leopold, OpEd News, April 21, 2008 In a stunning admission, top officials at the Veterans Health Administration confirmed that the agency’s own statistics show that an average of 126 veterans per week - 6,552 veterans per year - commit suicide, according to an internal email distributed to several VA officials. Brig. Gen. Michael J. Kussman, the undersecretary for health at the VA, sent the email, dated December 15, 2007. Kussman had inquired about the accuracy of a news report published that month claiming the suicide rate among veterans was 18 per day. ...

 Michigan Nurses Association on Thursday stepped up its campaign to try to pressure the Detroit Medical Center to sign an agreement pledging not to interfere in an election asking nurses at the health system's hospitals to unionize.