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PEBB Must Make Deeper Cuts to State Employee Benefits

The full list of health benefit reductions will be decided at the board’s next meeting on April 19
April 12, 2011 -- To stave off financial catastrophe, members of the Public Employees’ Benefit Board realized last Monday that they’d have to make even deeper cuts to the healthcare benefits of state employees and their dependents than they had earlier imagined. Read More >>

Public Employees’ Benefit Board Plans For Big Budget Hole

Worst-case scenario is “wholesale slaughter,” says board member Diane Lovell
March 25, 2011--The Public Employees’ Benefit Board (PEBB) agreed last week to implement benefit cuts and surcharges to its members that will help it close a looming budget gap somewhere between $20.5 million and $104.5 million. Read More >>

PEBB Prioritizes Potential Plan Cuts

But size of the board’s 2012 budget hole remains a mystery
March 16, 2011--The Public Employees’ Benefit Board, facing a gaping budget hole next year whose size is still unknown, has devised a draft priority list of potential cost-saving changes to health benefits for state workers.   Read More >>

PEBB Increases Cost Sharing to Plug Budget Hole

Mid-year plan design changes take effect April 1
March 8, 2011 -- The Public Employees Benefit Board voted unanimously last week to increase cost-sharing to its 127,000 members beginning April 1. Read More >>

St. Charles Employees Win Union Representation

The largest, private sector, Oregon NLRB election in over a decade has been settled
February 2, 2011 -- St. Charles Medical Center employees in Bend voted in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election to form a union with Service Employees International Union Local 49 on January 5th. Read More >>

Legacy Emanuel Restructures its Housekeeping Staff to Reduce Costs

That could lead to an increase in infection rates, according to SEIU
January 26, 2011 -- SEIU along with the staff at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center are worried about the cleanliness of the hospital and, potentially, an increase in infection rates because of a plan to restructure its housekeeping staff.   Read More >>

St. Charles Redmond Nurses Vote in Favor of Contract

January 24, 2011 -- The nurses at St. Charles Redmond voted in favor of ratifying their three-year Oregon Nurses Association contract Thursday. Read More >>

Razor Thin Union Election at St. Charles Still in Question

St. Charles ratifies nurses contract with ONA in Redmond while SEIU alleges anti-union intimidation in Bend
January 12, 2011 – Hospital executives at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend and Redmond have had a tough go lately with the unions. Read More >>

Workers Picket Against Springfield Hospital

SEIU service workers at McKenzie-Willamette picketed for a day in protest of changes to health benefits
@ The Register-Guard
November 18, 2010 -- About 200 service workers — housekeepers, nurse’s aides and others — had walked a picket line at McKenzie-Willamette hospital by midafternoon Wednesday during a one-day strike against the hospital, a union leader said. Read More >>

Department of Labor Rules in Favor of Local Nurses Union

The ruling came down a year after a complaint had been filed by the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals Local 5017
August 25, 2010 -- Justice came too late for a group of nurses and health professionals who were ousted from their union in July 2009. Read More >>
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