PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Negotiations between Providence Health and its striking nurses and doctors have yet to yield an agreement, with the strike now extending beyond 10 days. The Oregon Nurses Association stated that discussions are ongoing but accused Providence of not taking the negotiations seriously.
Providence Health & Services and its unionized workers in Oregon appear to remain deadlocked a week into the largest health care strike in Oregon history. Nearly 5,000 Providence nurses and about 150 doctors and advanced practitioners walked off the job early last Friday.
Providence Health & Services said its negotiators are ready to reopen talks with the Oregon Nurses Association to end a strike by 5,000 doctors, nurses and other medical personnel that began Jan. 10.
Here's what you need to know about the strike of nearly 5,000 health care workers, including doctors and nurses.
A former hospital patient has filed a lawsuit seeking up to $4 million after she was infected with hepatitis C during surgery in Portland, the lawsuit claims.
Labcorp also purchased Legacy Health’s laboratory and announced in September that it planned to downsize that lab and shift its operations to the Providence location. 400 technicians working for Labcorp at Legacy hospitals have successfully unionized.
The largest health care worker strike in Oregon history is continuing this week, with thousands of Providence nurses and a number of doctors taking to picket lines across the state. Health care workers began their strike on Friday,
The fight for these demands immediately poses the need for a broader industrial and political struggle against the Democrats, Republicans and trade union apparatus.
Thousands of Providence health care workers are striking this morning in the largest health care strike in Oregon history. Here's why.
The ONA has not warned its members of the dangers posed by the threats of the Trump administration to undertake ICE raids in “sensitive areas,” which historically have included hospitals.
Some 5,000 hospital health care workers have walked off the job in Oregon as they picket all eight Providence hospitals in the state
Nearly 5,000 nurses, doctors and other health workers at Providence Health & Services hospitals and clinics in Oregon are walking off their jobs beginning 6 a.m. Friday.