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St. Charles Medical Center
Collective bargaining
St. Charles nurses avert strike with new contract
If approved, the agreement with Oregon Nurses Association will boost base pay between 33% and 48%, depending on experience.
Collective bargaining
Nurses could strike in Bend
In total, 962 nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association were eligible to vote, and nearly every one did. It was near unanimous.
Workers Rights
St. Charles Hospital in Bend hires union buster
The Florida union buster is just the latest for the Oregon hospital’s hard-core anti-union human resources team.
Union Organizing
Central Oregon nurses to hold union vote
A group of 40 home health and hospice nurses at St. Charles Health System will decide whether to join the Oregon Nurses Association.
Collective bargaining
OFNHP signs first contract at St. Charles Hospital in Bend
Even with the agreement ratified and signed, the hospital's management can’t resist taking potshots at the union.
Collective bargaining
St. Charles hospital in Bend recommits to negotiations after nine-day strike by medical techs
After trying over a year to get a first union contract, 143 medical technologists at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend walked off the job.
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
At Bend hospital, support staff dump SEIU, but nurses approve new contract
The group of 600 joined SEIU 49 in 21 months ago, but never got a contract.
Collective bargaining
St. Charles Medical Center gets aggressive with nurses; 600 picket
A Bend hospital recruits strikebreakers, and turns sprinklers on picketers.
Collective bargaining
SEIU pickets St. Charles Hospital in Bend
After 18 months and no contract for 600 hospital workers, some are pushing to dump the union.
Workers Rights
Bend hospital fires SEIU leaders amid decert campaign
A union vote at St. Charles Medical Center is on hold while the NLRB investigates violations.
Workers Rights
Crackdown at St. Charles Medical Center
St. Charles Medical Center in Bend sounds like a dictatorship in a case filed by SEIU Local 49.
Union Organizing
SEIU 49 scores Oregon’s biggest private-sector win in decades
Support and maintenance workers at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend voted 267 to 261 to unionize.
Union Organizing
St. Charles Medical Center workers vote by slim majority to join SEIU
Workers voted 255 to 251.
