There is no doubt that Providence management, with the help of ONA, deliberately tried to split off the PHHH from the other bargaining units, and will use this to try to enforce a worse contract there.
Taxi drivers, bus drivers and farmers have staged protests across Colombia in recent days, while on January 18 Argentine television workers held a 24-hour walkout over pay.
The sellout contract pre-empts a unified struggle of all Providence nurses for safe staffing, decent wages and affordable health care. Nurses had no time to review the contents of the agreement.
Nurses at Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center recently voted to accept a tentative labor agreement, ending the threat of a strike at the Oregon City.