As details of the sellout deal emerge, Oregon nurses union cynically claims “historic” victory in Bend medical technicians strike
The Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP) Local 5017 has succeeded in imposing a sellout contract on the 156 health care workers at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon whose strike was called off after just 11 days by the union on March 15. The contract addresses none of the concerns of the medical technicians and imposes a “market-based” pay structure completely in line with the hospital administration’s demands.
This has not stopped the OFNHP from calling the deal a “massive victory” and a “historic new contract.” However, the union’s version of the deal is not corroborated by hospital management. If there was anything “historic” in this contract, it is just how sharply the hospital and OFNHP disagree on what it contains.