Providence nurses will remain on picket lines even as strike officially ends

The Oregon Nurses Association accused Providence of illegally locking its members out of their workplaces. Providence said the “union talks one way, acts another.”

Oregon’s largest nurses’ strike will effectively continue for two more days after the union representing the nurses accused Providence of illegally preventing its members from returning to their jobs.

The three-day strike by 3,000 nurses at six Providence hospitals was scheduled to end on Friday at 6 a.m.  However, the Oregon Nurses Association announced on Thursday that nurses would continue picketing in response to what they called “Providence’s selective and delayed return of some employees” to the workplace that would last until Sunday morning.

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Source: Providence nurses will remain on picket lines even as strike officially ends | The Lund Report