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Oregon nurses union continues to boost membership, clout

The powerful union has gained 620 new members at Providence since January as new contract talks with the health system loom next year. Mixed results from a strike last year — Oregon's largest ever— could spell tensions ahead with the state's largest operator of hospitals.
May 28, 2026
 
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DRAZEN ZIGIC SHUTTERSTOCK

Last week 43 technologists at Providence Hood River voted to unionize, bringing the total of workers at the hospital system organized thi