On the other hand, the full list of riders to the contract has yet to be seen. The only concrete takeaway from the highlights released so far is that there will be retroactive pay, which was not included in the previous TA after having been a part of contracts for decades. There will also be no discussion of reducing health care costs for nurses until 2024, which will be done by a joint “committee.” And while Providence will be “required to staff to standard on each shift,” management itself is being given the authority to “establish nurse to patient staffing standards,” which is in fact an opening for the hospital to decrease the number of nurses on each shift. The pay increase during that period will only be “up to” 16.5 percent, language which suggests such an increase is not guaranteed and one which is at best still below inflation, currently at 8.6 percent. The contract itself will only be for two years.
The most that has been presented are the sanitized “nurse wins” posted on the ONA’s Facebook page, which provide scant details on the demands of nurses, including wages, staffing ratios and benefits. It was forced to call the strike last week after nurses voted down the previous contract by a margin of more than 4 to 1, but has now canceled its preparations for the strike and has instead announced it is “planning worksite meetings to share details of the tentative agreements reached.” A date to vote on the new contract has yet to be announced.Īs of this writing, the actual contract has yet to be sent to the union’s membership. In reality, the ONA is seeking to impose a sellout and avoid a strike set for July 11. The agreement was announced after the ONA announced it had completed a “historic” 24-hour bargaining session with Providence executives on Monday, claiming a “NURSE VICTORY.” Vincent Medical Center outside of Portland, Oregon. The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) announced a new tentative agreement Thursday afternoon for 1,600 nurses at Providence St.
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