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Legacy Health Systems
Collective bargaining
Legacy workers ratify contract after 29-day strike
The agreement covers around 135 nurse practitioners and physician assistants at Legacy hospitals and clinics.
Collective bargaining
Legacy strike ends as workers vote on second tentative agreement
Two other units joined the picket line in two-day solidarity strikes.
Collective bargaining
Legacy strike is set to grow as other units prepare to walk out
Pediatric and Go Health providers will strike in solidarity.
Collective bargaining
Nurse practitioners and associate physicians strike at Legacy
Advanced practice providers say low pay and lack of support push colleagues to leave and harm patient care.
Union Organizing
Fallout from Legacy-OHSU merger sparks union wave
The merger of two of the region's largest health care providers is off, but 3,000 more workers are unionized since its announcement.
Union Organizing
Legacy nurses go union
Oregon Nurses Association welcomes nearly 2,300 new members from three Legacy hospitals after successful union vote.
Union Organizing
Legacy nurses to vote on union
Nurses cite safety concerns, poor work environments, and uncompetitive wages in historic union drive with ONA.
Union Organizing
Streak of union wins at Legacy
An extraordinary wave of union organizing in the Legacy Health system continued in recent weeks, with three more units voting to unionize.
Union Organizing
Doctors vote to unionize at six Legacy hospitals
Support was overwhelming in the votes to join the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, a union for physicians that formed in 2015.
Union Organizing
Doctors want a union at Legacy Health
All told, 235 doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants would unionize at all eight hospitals.
Jobs
OHSU is slow with raises. But can afford to buy Legacy.
If the public teaching hospital buys the private health system, it would eclipse Intel as the largest metro-area employer.
People
WHY SHE LEFT
Nurses are burned out and quitting the profession like never before. One psychiatric nurse shares why she quit her job at Unity.
Collective bargaining
As strike neared, Legacy Health Systems settled with SEIU Local 49
Help with advancement: Under their new contract, SEIU Local 49 members at Legacy Good Samaritan, above, have access to joint union-employer funds to pay tuition for classes that can help them get ahead.
Union Organizing
NLRB: Legacy must recognize union
Legacy Health asked the NLRB to annul a nurse union vote at Unity Behavioral Health, but all three Trump appointees rejected its legal appeal.
Union Organizing
Legacy appeals nurses’ union victory at Unity Center for Behavioral Health
The non-profit hospital chain is rolling the dice hoping the Trump labor board will strike down a union win.
Union Organizing
Psychiatric nurses at Legacy’s Unity Center vote overwhelmingly to unionize
Supporters say they want a union in part to create a safer environment for patients and staff.
Union democracy
Oregon Nurses Association joins American Federation of Teachers
ONA says the move will enhance nurses' voice in an era of hospital consolidation and cost-cutting
