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 St. Vincent delivers more babies than any other hospital in Oregon, but its striking obstetricians say work conditions have deteriorated.

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.

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,

After five days of strikes at Providence’s eight hospitals in Oregon and six of its women’s clinics, the health care company and union members representing nurses and others have agreed to return to negotiations.

The fight for these demands immediately poses the need for a broader industrial and political struggle against the Democrats, Republicans and trade union apparatus.

On the fifth day of a historic health care workers strike impacting Providence facilities in Oregon, the hospital system signaled that it is now prepared to resume negotiations at all eight of its hospitals.

PORTLAND — Some 5,000 hospital health care workers walked off the job Friday as they picketed all eight Providence hospitals in Oregon, in what the state health workers union described as the ...

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At the entrance to Providence Seaside Hospital Friday morning, dozens of nurses, many clad in green rain ponchos bearing the Oregon Nurses Association logo, gathered in the drizzle wielding picket signs.

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden visited the picket line at Providence Portland Medical Center on Sunday to show support for healthcare workers.