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Oregon Nurses Association

After a 47 day strike, Providence nurses are back to work

Providence dug in, but in the end made concessions on wages and staffing levels to end the biggest healthcare strike in Oregon history. 

Nurses reject offer, extend strike at Providence hospitals

Providence spends $25 million per week on strikebreakers as nurses fight for fair wages, safe staffing levels.

Legacy nurses go union

Oregon Nurses Association welcomes nearly 2,300 new members from three Legacy hospitals after successful union vote.

Doctors at Providence Medford ratify first contract

ER doctors' new contract wins wages that keep pace with inflation and limits duties outside of the ER that threaten patient safety.

Whether Legacy or GoHealth, clinic workers want into union

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants at GoHealth urgent care clinics in Oregon and Washington voted 45-1 to join ONA.

Providence strike now in its fourth week

The nonprofit hospital chain may be spending around $25 million a week to pay 2,000 traveling scab nurses.

Nurses and doctors strike eight Providence hospitals

The largest healthcare strike in Oregon history started Jan. 10. Once again, Providence staffs up with strikebreakers.

Legacy nurses to vote on union

Nurses cite safety concerns, poor work environments, and uncompetitive wages in historic union drive with ONA.

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.

RUNNING FOR OFFICE: Terri Niles

It may take a nurse to heal the partisan divide.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

Home care nurse strike ends without deal

PeaceHealth hired strikebreakers to temporarily replace home health and hospice nurses during the strike.

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.

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.

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.