NEWBERG, Ore. — On Jan. 10, 2025, 5,000 nurses, doctors, physician associates, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives from Providence facilities across Oregon walked off of the job, culminating in the largest strike by health care workers in Oregon’s history.
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The hospitals are still in operation, staffed by temporary replacement workers and traveling nurses. Oregon nurses have been at the bargaining table since Oct. 4, 2023. The contract between nurses and Providence expired December 31, 2023. The Oregon Nurses Association staged an informational picket in March 2024, and then staged a three-day strike in June 2024.
According to the Oregon Nurses Association, the nurses are demanding Providence add more nurses for safe patient assignments, establish caseloads for attending clinicians, implement workplace safety and technology, develop market competitive wages and differentials, as well as competitive health benefits.
Physicians and nurses at Providence women’s clinic in the Portland area have reached a tennative agreement as of Feb. 3, 2025, according to the Oregon Capital Chronicle. The nurses working for Providence’s eight hospitals around the state are continuing the strike.
You can learn more about the strike at the Oregon Capital Chronicle’s website.
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