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The SEIU ? United Healthcare Workers West, California?s largest healthcare union, has reached a deal with the California Hospital Association for a new ?code of conduct?. The deal includes the union dropping ballot initiatives that would limit hospital executive pay and limit the charges and hospitals agreeing to create a $100 million lobbying fund to try and increase reimbursements from the state?s Medicaid program. The shortfalls of the Medicaid program is one of the issues that both parties agreed upon before the most recent confrontation. A similar deal was reached in 2012, but SEIU didn?t believe that the CHA fully fulfilled its end of the bargain and so the most recent collective actions took place. A smaller California healthcare union, National Union of Healthcare Workers, has said that the deal is a sign that the SEIU is growing too close to the CHA administration.