A five-day strike led by nearly 1,800 health care workers at three Providence facilities ended on Friday evening, but contract negotiations are still underway for the employees asking for better working conditions. Nurses at Providence Portland Medical Center, Providence Seaside Hospital and Providence Home Health and Hospice launched the strike on Monday, June 19.
Nearly 2,000 Providence nurses in Portland and Seaside have launched the region’s first nurses’ strike in more than two decades. Nurses at Providence Portland Medical Center began their strike at 5 a.m. Monday. Two hours later, nurses from Providence Seaside on the coast and nurses working on a home health and hospice unit run by the Providence Health System joined them. The strike, which is set to last until Saturday morning, is a milestone: the.