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Oregon Nurses Association
Workers Rights
Ontario, Oregon hospital trying to bust nurses union
A labor dispute between the Oregon Nurses Association and an eastern Oregon hospital intensified after management withdrew union recognition.
People
ONA names new director
Oregon Nurses Association has hired Anne Tan Piazza as executive director following an eight-month nationwide search.
Collective bargaining
Nurses at two more Providence hospitals hold strike votes
Nurses at Providence hospitals in Oregon City and Milwaukie are voting through June 2 on whether to authorize a strike.
Collective bargaining
Providence St. Vincent nurses are ready to strike
After more than six months of unsuccessful bargaining, about 1,600 ONA-represented nurses could walk off the job with 10 days notice.
Collective bargaining
Strike vote at Providence St. Vincent
A unit of 1,600 nurses at Providence St. Vincent hospital in Southwest Portland will vote April 19 to May 3 on whether to authorize a strike.
Collective bargaining
Over 700 Providence nurses rally in show of unity
Providence nurses want staffing ratios, adequate breaks, affordable health insurance, and adequate pay increases.
Collective bargaining
Nurses say strike could be coming at Providence
Two years into the pandemic, nurses at Providence health facilities statewide are at a breaking point. Will Providence listen?
Politics
Unionist appointed to the state house
Travis Nelson, Oregon Nurses Association vice president, is Oregon’s newest lawmaker, filling Tina Kotek’s House District 44.
Oregon
An early look at Oregon labor’s 2022 legislative agenda
The Oregon Legislature’s “short session” begins Feb. 1 and ends by March 10. As ever, Oregon labor will promote a set of pro-worker bills.
Analysis
Nurse union warns staffing shortage is at crisis levels
In one survey by Oregon Nurses Association, 60% of nurses said they're considering leaving the profession.
People
PERSONNEL REPORT
Sherman Henry and Lina Stepick leave LERC, ONA's director departs, and Mayor Wheeler reappoints Willy Myers to Prosper Portland.
In Memoriam
Burton David White, 1930-2021
After a decade and a half at Oregon and California nurses unions, he spent most of his career mediating and arbitrating labor disagreements.
National
Labor confronts police brutality
Union members are taking part in protests, joining morning-after cleanup parties, and even walking off the job in support of Black Lives Matter.
People
New hands at helm of nurses union
Sarah Laslett joins ONA after 17 years as a labor educator. Her priorities will be organizing, empowering stewards, and bargaining for the common good.
Worker safety
The coronavirus pandemic is turning life upside down for working people
From worried nurses to overwhelmed grocery workers, from layoffs to the stock collapse’s impact on pensions, a look at the epidemic’s impacts on working people and union members.
Collective bargaining
Corvallis nurses reject contract offer
Over 500 nurses have been working at Good Samaritan without a contract since June 30.
Union Organizing
Alarmed about safety decline, nurses at McMinnville hospital file for a union
Safety has dropped dramatically since for-profit Willamette Valley Medical was acquired by Tennessee-based LifePoint Health last year.
Union Organizing
Medical techs unionize at St. Charles Hospital in Bend
Despite an anti-union campaign by management, the group of 163 workers voted by a 3-to-1 margin to join OFNHP.
Collective bargaining
Nurses picket Astoria hospital
Nurses say understaffing is a serious problem at Columbia Memorial Hospital.
Retirement
Public employees file lawsuit to protect PERS retirement benefits
Plaintiffs say SB 1049 is a breach of contract, an illegal taking, and violates the Constitution.
