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Oregon Nurses Association
Collective bargaining
Nurses and doctors strike eight Providence hospitals
The largest healthcare strike in Oregon history started Jan. 10. Once again, Providence staffs up with strikebreakers.
Union Organizing
Legacy nurses to vote on union
Nurses cite safety concerns, poor work environments, and uncompetitive wages in historic union drive with ONA.
Collective bargaining
Biggest-yet Providence strike could be coming
Thirteen Oregon hospitals and clinics in the Providence health care chain could shut down as early as next month.
Jobs
OHSU unions slam layoffsÂ
Publicly owned OHSU is laying off 400 workers even as it plans a $1 billion acquisition of Legacy and pours cash into executive compensation.
Collective bargaining
Providence locks out striking nurses
The three-day strike wrapped up on June 21 but Providence wouldn’t allow all striking nurses to return to work for two more days.
Collective bargaining
Nurses strike at six Providence hospitals
Providence notified the union that it won’t let strikers return to work on Friday, extending the work stoppage as a two-day lockout.Â
Health Care
Hospitals flouting Oregon’s new staffing ratio law
Oregon Health Authority has received over 360 complaints from nurses alleging that hospital managers are violating the safe staffing law.
Collective bargaining
Springfield hospice nurses settle contract with PeaceHealth
The new agreement raises wages but fails to deliver the demand of the strike: for them to be paid the same as in-hospital nurses.
Collective bargaining
PeaceHealth offer would lock in lower pay for home care
Home care RNs have a critical decision to make: agree to be paid less than hospital nurses, or go on strike a second time for equal pay.Â
Collective bargaining
Home care nurse strike ends without deal
PeaceHealth hired strikebreakers to temporarily replace home health and hospice nurses during the strike.
Collective bargaining
PeaceHealth deploys home health nurse strikebreakers in Eugene
Registered nurses who provide home care service for PeaceHealth Sacred Heart started a two-week strike Feb. 10.
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.
Collective bargaining
Eugene-area hospice and home care nurses set to strike Feb. 10
More than 90 registered nurses at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Home Care Service near Eugene expect to begin a two-week strike at 7 a.m. Feb. 10.
Union Organizing
Another 600 employees unionize at OHSU
Over 600 nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician associates are joining Oregon Nurses Association.
Collective bargaining
Springfield home health nurses ready to strike over wage disparity with hospital nurses
About 90 home health nurses are ready to strike if PeaceHealth Sacred Heart refuses to pay them the same as counterparts inside the hospital.
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
Astoria nurses get deal a day after vote to strike
After eight months of bargaining and an overwhelming strike vote, nurses at Columbia Memorial Health reached agreement for a new contract.
Union Organizing
Doctors want a union at Legacy Health
All told, 235 doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants would unionize at all eight hospitals.
Collective bargaining
OHSU averts nurse strike with $20.67/hour raise
The agreement with Oregon Nurses Association covers almost 3,200 nurses there. It also sets safe staffing standards and improves safety.
