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PeaceHealth
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.
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.
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.
Collective bargaining
OFNHP reaches agreements with PeaceHealth
More than 1,300 health care workers struck Oct. 23-27 at PeaceHealth Southwest in Vancouver and St. John Medical Center in Longview.
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.
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.
Collective bargaining
PeaceHealth says it’s done with bargaining at Longview hospital
PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center declared impasse and walked away from contract negotiations with 14 lab professionals on July 31.
Union Organizing
At Springfield’s PeaceHealth Sacred Heart hospital, medical techs vote overwhelmingly to unionize
The new 350-member bargaining unit will be part of Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.
Collective bargaining
After nine months, nurses in Florence get new union contract
Nurses at PeaceHealth Peace Harbor hospital approved a new three-year union contract Aug. 3.
Collective bargaining
Nurses picket PeaceHealth hospital in Florence over excessive on-call
Bargaining has been under way since November.
Union Organizing
PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center workers vote to join AFT
The vote is 319 for AFT, 110 for SEIU.
Union Organizing
At PeaceHealth Southwest, 900 workers will choose between AFT and SEIU
The Dec. 14-15 vote is a runoff after no choice got a majority in a Nov. 22 election among service and maintenance workers.
Collective bargaining
Cure for corporate medicine: A doctors’ union contract
Doctors who unionized to fight outsourcing at PeaceHealth in Springfield now have a first contract.
