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Collective bargaining
No contract (yet) at PeaceHealth Southwest
A unit of about 250 pharmacists, physical therapists, chaplains, and other professional workers is having trouble getting a first contract.
Collective bargaining
Unions reach tentative national deal with Kaiser Permanente
Following strikes and 11 months of rocky negotiations, new agreements raise wages 21.5% over the next three years and eight months.
Collective bargaining
Breakthrough first contract at Labcorp
Outsourced Oregon lab workers unionized. Now they have higher wages, scheduling rights, and no forced overtime.
Collective bargaining
Kaiser inches closer to a new union contract
With the last contracts having expired Sept. 30, this is the longest Kaiser workers have gone without a new contract in more than 25 years.
Analysis
2025: The rest of the story
Since the start of 2025, we’ve reported over 400 stories. Here's an update about what’s happened since we last reported on some of them.
Collective bargaining
After the strike, still no deal with Kaiser Permanente
Nearly 45,000 Kaiser workers struck for better pay and respect; weeks later, unions say little progress has been made.
Collective bargaining
Kaiser Permanente workers on strike in four states
Following decades of labor peace, it’s the fourth strike at Kaiser since 2023.
Collective bargaining
Kaiser Permanente staff may strike over pay, staffing
4,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in Oregon and Washington are set to strike Oct. 14 for up to five days. Their contract expired Sept. 30.
Collective bargaining
Early tremors appear in Kaiser bargaining
Kaiser Permanente contract negotiations are heating up after the healthcare system retracted a tentative agreement on successorship.
Union Organizing
Outsourced Providence lab workers unionize
The Catholic health chain outsourced diagnostic lab operations and leased their workplace to a giant for-profit company known as LabCorp.
Union Organizing
Outsourced lab workers unionize
Legacy Health System contracted out its labs to LabCorp. Now 435 lab workers who used to work at Legacy are union-represented.
Union Organizing
300 more PeaceHealth SW workers go union
The unit would include audiologists, pharmacists, counselors, dieticians, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, and others.
Union Organizing
Outsourced lab workers respond by unionizing
More than 400 health care lab workers at Lab Corporation of America in Oregon and Washington will vote this May whether to join the OFNHP.
Collective bargaining
No labor peace at PeaceHealth
Leading up to a strike by SW Washington hospital techs, management offered bonus pay to get workers to scab against their own coworkers.
Jobs
PeaceHealth moves ahead with the closure of Eugene’s only hospital
Over the objection of unions and Governor Kotek, the Vancouver-based hospital chain is closing most units at its Eugene hospital as of Dec. 1
Collective bargaining
Workers set to strike Oct. 23 at PeaceHealth
A strike is likely and will include lab techs, service, and maintenance workers at PeaceHealth hospitals in Vancouver and Longview.
Workers Rights
Work at Kaiser? Better check your paycheck
After more than two years of problems as egregious as a $99,000 overpayment or zeroed out paid leave banks, OFNHP is speaking out.
Collective bargaining
PeaceHealth workers vote to authorize strike
OFNHP and PeaceHealth are far apart on wages for lab techs and maintenance workers at hospitals in Vancouver and Longview.
Jobs
PeaceHealth wants to close the only hospital in Eugene
The Sacred Heart Medical Center University District closure would need the approval of the Oregon Health Authority.
Jobs
OFNHP decries layoffs at PeaceHealth as Vancouver clinic closes
PeaceHealth will lay off nearly 30 union-represented workers this fall when it closes an urgent care clinic in Vancouver.
