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