Up to 40,000 union members at the health care giant are expected to protest in solidarity with striking engineers across the Bay Area and Sacramento.

At an Oct. 25 rally, nurses accused the hospital of violating state-mandated nurse-to-patient rules, putting patients at risk and overworking nurses to the point of burn out.

Two unions repping nurses in the expanded county-run hospital system are at odds over differing interpretations of a labor-relations law.

Tensions between the county and a local nurses union hit a flash point today, when the union called a one-day strike at two local hospitals.

There will be no court hearing of a request by AG Xavier Becerra's motion to block the sale of the two local hospitals.

New labor conflicts have intensified an already boiling controversy over Santa Clara county’s purchase of two failing hospitals.

The state attorney general's office will host public meetings this week on the contentious sale of six nonprofit hospitals—including two in Silicon Valley—to a multi-state, for-profit chain.