Oregon Healthcare Workers Set for Statewide Strike Amid Stalled Talks with Providence
Oregon healthcare workers set to strike after failing negotiations with Providence over staffing and safety concerns.
Nearly 5,000 Providence health workers across Oregon plan open-ended strike
Roughly 5,000 nurses, hospitalists and other frontline health workers at Providence hospitals and clinics throughout Oregon are set to go on an open-ended strike starting Jan. 10. The strike could hobble Oregon’s largest health care system and significantly impact health care services across the region as patients seek care elsewhere.
Providence Workers Plan Strike for Jan. 10 After Negotiations Fail
About 5,000 healthcare workers at 11 hospitals and clinics run by Providence Health & Services plan to go on strike at 7 am Friday, Jan. 10 to protest what they say are low wages and dangerously understaffed critical care units and emergency rooms.
5K Providence frontline workers announce strike in January
After failed negotiations, 5,000 Providence frontline healthcare workers will be striking on Jan. 10, marking the start of the largest healthcare and first physicians strike in Oregon history.
Nearly 5K frontline healthcare workers issue strike notice to Providence
A date has been set for what could be the largest healthcare strike in Oregon history. Nearly 5,000 frontline healthcare workers have now told Providence that they plan to strike on Jan. 10. The group includes doctors,
Nearly 5,000 health care workers at 14 Providence facilities to strike Jan. 10
It will be the first doctors' strike in state history and the largest nurses' strike, according to the union representing the health care workers.
Oregon healthcare workers issue strike notice to Providence
Healthcare workers represented by the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) across the state issued a 10-day intent to strike notice to Providence management Monday. The notice comes after a week of bargaining with the hospital system followed by a five-day cooling off period along with additional mediated discussions.
Oregon Providence health care workers announce strike
Thousands of health care workers at Providence hospitals and clinics in Oregon are planning to go on strike Jan. 10.
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Nurses, doctors may strike at multiple Providence hospitals, clinics
No date has been set for a strike. According to ONA, nurses at Providence's Seaside Hospital are the latest bargaining unit to vote in favor of allowing a strike on Tuesday. It comes after ...
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Providence faces potential strike of nearly 5,000 health workers across Oregon
Nurses at Providence Seaside and at Providence Portland Medical Center, the health system’s largest hospital, were the latest to authorize strikes. Their votes concluded during this past week.
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Providence, ONA negotiations ongoing as potential strike looms
Following a recent five days of mediation between the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) and Providence Health & Services a ...