Thousands of Providence Health Workers Strike in Oregon
This is a MedPage Today story. Nearly 5,000 healthcare workers from Providence Health began a strike Friday morning, picketing all eight Providence hospitals in Oregon, after months of contract negotiations between the health system and the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) union, which is representing the workers. The strike is believed to be the largest involving healthcare workers, and the first involving physicians, in the state's history, according to the ONA. The sprawling group -- including mostly nurses, but also physicians, nurse practitioners, physician associates, and nurse midwives -- is "resolved" in its "demands for fair contracts that will invest more in patient safety, follow the [state's] safe staffing law, decrease physician caseload, and offer regionally competitive wages and benefits to be able to recruit and retain more staff," the union said. In a phone interview with MedPage Today while out on the strike line, Jennifer Lincoln, MD, an ob/gyn at Providence...
This is a MedPage Today story.
Nearly 5,000 healthcare workers from Providence Health began a strike Friday morning, picketing all eight Providence hospitals in Oregon, after months of contract negotiations between the health system and the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) union, which is representing the workers.
The strike is believed to be the largest involving healthcare workers, and the first involving physicians, in the state's history, according to the ONA.
The sprawling group -- including mostly nurses, but also physicians, nurse practitioners, physician associates, and nurse midwives -- is "resolved" in its "demands for fair contracts that will invest more in patient safety, follow the [state's] safe staffing law, decrease physician caseload, and offer regionally competitive wages and benefits to be able to recruit and retain more staff," the union said.
In a phone interview with MedPage Today while out on the strike line, Jennifer Lincoln, MD, an ob/gyn at Providence...
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