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The 1,700 union workers at PeaceHealth have reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with management, bringing their campaign to a close with historic pay raises of over 50% for some workers.

VANCOUVER, WA.— The over 1,700 frontline healthcare workers from PeaceHealth Southwest, PeaceHealth Sacred Heart and PeaceHealth St. John have reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with management after months of contract negotiations and a five-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike. These healthcare workers, who are members of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP, AFT Local 5017)

The 1,300 striking PeaceHealth workers returned to work on Saturday and will be bargaining in the coming weeks; PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Techs could call a strike authorization vote at any time.

VANCOUVER, WA.— On Saturday, October 28th, the 1,300 PeaceHealth workers who went on strike on Monday, October 23rd, returned to work. These workers had organized a five-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike to protest actions by management that the union says were illegal and violated the union rights of their workers. These healthcare workers, who are members of the Oregon Federation of Nurses

At 6:30am on Monday, October 23rd, 1,300 PeaceHealth frontline healthcare workers are walking out for 5 days to protest the employer’s violations of federal labor law.

VANCOUVER, WA.— On Monday morning at 6:30am, over 1,300 healthcare workers from PeaceHealth Southwest and St. John are walking off the job and onto a picket line. These frontline healthcare workers, who are members of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP, AFT Local 5017, AFL-CIO), and in the Tech, Service and Maintenance, and Lab Professional units, have been fighting Unfair Labor Practices (ULPs) for

August 21, 2018 - Tuesday kicked off our week of informational picketing and leafleting events across the Kaiser Permanente Northwest region with picket lines in Vancouver, WA and Salem, OR. 

View the coverage in the Columbian here.