Picketers said that years of staffing shortages, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, have left them exhausted and with plummeting morale.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Hundreds of nurses on Tuesday evening lined Barnes Road in front of Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, which is in the midst of contract negotiations with Oregon’s largest nurses’ union.
Picketers said they were exhausted and angry after years of working in the pandemic and low morale was driving nurses away.
The Oregon Nurses Association, which represents 15,000 nurses statewide and 4,000 at Providence hospitals, said more than 700 people turned out for the informational picket. Some work at other Providence
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