Oregon has expanded free health insurance that mirrors Medicaid to all residents who qualify, regardless of their immigration status. The move took effect July 1. It marks an expansion of a Medicaid-type program for immigrants last year for residents who don’t qualify for the Oregon Health Plan because of their immigration status. The program, Healthier […]
Category: Organizations
AXIOS: Summer of strikes heats up
It’s shaping up to be a summer of strikes: Workers are walking off the job across a remarkable range of industries from Starbucks baristas to factory workers making parts for jets to Amazon drivers. Why it matters: The worker activism sparked by the pandemic seems to be increasing, thanks in part to a still-tight labor […]
We the People: Health Care for All Oregon
On We the People for July 5, Jason Houk talks with Wes Brain about latest efforts to ensure health care for all Oregonians. We also discuss Starbucks union efforts. https://archive.org/details/we-the-people-202307050900
REUTERS: Los Angeles-area hotel workers strike over wages, housing
LOS ANGELES, July 2 (Reuters) – Thousands of Los Angeles-area hotel workers went on strike on Sunday demanding pay hikes and improved benefits in a region where high housing costs make it difficult for low-wage earners to live close to where they hold jobs, union officials said. Unite Here Local 11, which represents 15,000 workers […]
KPTV: Portland-area unionized Starbucks workers on strike Friday
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – Unionized Starbucks partners in Oregon and Washington will strike on Friday in protest of the company’s actions during Pride Month. In a statement from Starbucks Workers United on Thursday, they asked the Seattle-based company to “end its attacks on LGBTQIA+ workers as part of its relentless union-busting campaign that includes threatening […]
Providence to Oregon AG: Deny nurses’ request to investigate
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Days after the Oregon Nurses Association wrote a letter to Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum asking her to investigate Providence, the hospital responded with a letter of their own on Tuesday. A five-day strike led by nearly 1,800 healthcare workers at three Providence facilities ended on Friday evening, but ONA is […]
OHSU nurses picket for better hospital conditions as contract is set to expire
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Just days after nurses at three Providence facilities ended a strike against the hospital system, healthcare workers at Oregon Health and Science University have launched a demonstration of their own. The Oregon Nurses Association announced that nurses at OHSU, OHSU Hillsboro and OHSU partner Columbia Memorial Hospital were organizing “a series […]
The Providence nurse strike has ended, but the fight over health care working conditions roars on
More than 1,800 Providence health system nurses and home health workers ended their weeklong strike at 5 p.m. Friday. It was the first major health care worker work stoppage in Portland in more than 20 years. But it may not be the last. Experts say nurses unions across the country have been more willing to […]
KGW: Providence violated Oregon law by bringing in ‘professional strikebreakers,’ union says
PORTLAND, Ore. — As a five-day healthcare worker strike at three Providence Health facilities in Oregon came to a close on Friday, the nurses union and hospital administrators traded barbs over an accusation that Providence violated state law. The Oregon Nurses Association put out an embargoed statement slated for release at 5 p.m. on Friday. […]
We the People: Nurses’ Strike
On We the People for June 21, Jason Houk talks with Gabriel Erbs, labor organizer with Oregon Nurses Association. about Providence Nurses Strike. https://archive.org/details/we-the-people-202306210900