Nearly 120 Labcorp laboratory professionals serving Providence Portland have filed their public intention to unionize today. These healthcare workers chose to join the 6,000 member Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP), a local affiliate of the 1.8 million member AFT national union. These lab workers are employed by the for-profit company Labcorp, which is contracted by Providence to provide the Portland area hospital’s lab services. 

"We decided to unionize because we want to ensure a stable, well-trained, well-staffed medical laboratory is available to our community

Our Legacy Meridian Park Techs have voted by an overwhelming 96% to ratify our first union contract! This new contract includes:

• At Least a 4% Raise, based on the Median Wage converted into a dollar amount.
• $1,200 Ratification Bonus, prorated to the FTE.
• Evening Shift Differentials
• Dispute Resolution and Grievance System
• Preference for Union Employees on Assignment
• Seniority for Job Preferences

You can click here to read the contract it in its entirety, but it is also going through additional revisions to remove typos and make adjustments. There is also an appendix that will be added to outline both

Our Respiratory Therapists at Kaiser Permanente have been fighting to fix their short staffing crisis by getting market adjustments to address the historically low wages. On October 29th, a number of RTs along with leaders and stewards in the Tech unit met with Human Resources to read a letter and make their demands clear: we need to bring RT wages up to those in other areas covered by the Alliance agreement that have similar costs of living. After telling these members that they would return with a response, Kaiser said it had "no interest" in bargaining over these wages. This answer is