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Jobs

OHSU unions slam layoffs 

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. 
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. 
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.
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.
Collective bargaining

Strike vote at OHSU

If they authorize a strike, almost 3,200 nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association could walk out as soon as Sept. 28.
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.
Collective bargaining

Providence settles with nurses

Two of the three bargaining units that held a five-day strike in June now have significant pay raises, more time off, and safer staffing.
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