OREGON, USA — A long-anticipated health care workers strike began early Friday morning across 14 Providence facilities after Providence Health and the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) failed to reach an agreement on contract negotiations.
According to ONA, this is the largest nurses and health care workers strike in state history, with nearly 5,000 health care workers on the picket line, including some doctors, nurses and physician assistants. It is also the first doctors strike in Oregon’s history.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had urged both entities to make a deal beforehand, to no avail…