Month: January 2025

Sign up to join a picket, sign the petition to Providence, and support the strike fund here! 

Nearly 5,000 healthcare professionals at the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) are calling on Providence Health & Services to return to the bargaining table and put their patients before profits by offering a fair contract to frontline caregivers. Nurses, doctors, physician associates, certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, clinical staff, and other healthcare professionals are striking Providence beginning Jan. 10.

ONA members are holding this historic and courageous strike because of Providence’s unfair labor practices, dangerously understaffed hospitals, the need for more time with patients, affordable employee healthcare, and competitive wages and benefits to help recruit and retain more caregivers.

Join the picket lines and stand in solidarity with healthcare workers fighting for better care for their patients and a stronger future for caregivers!

“We are the wealthiest nation on Earth. There is no rational reason as to why we are not the healthiest nation on Earth. We should be leading the world in terms of life expectancy, disease prevention, low infant and maternal mortality, quality of life and human happiness. Sadly, study after study shows just the opposite. Despite spending almost twice as much per capita on healthcare, we trail most wealthy nations in all these areas.

If we’re going to reform our broken and dysfunctional healthcare system and ‘Make America healthy again’, this is some of what we must do.” Read more here.