5,000 Doctors, Nurses and Other Health Care Workers Walk Off Job in Oregon

“Declaring that understaffing had them “running on empty”, 5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest. The strikers work at eight hospitals plus women’s health clinics across Oregon.”

The workload has increased but the administrators refuses to hire new staff. Meanwhile nurses are leaving because Providence Hospital has not kept up with higher wage levels offered at other hospitals.

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