Nurses at Providence St. Vincent vote to reject tentative union contract

The Oregon Nurses Association and Providence reached a tentative agreement earlier this month. The St. Vincent nurses passed a strike authorization vote last month.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Nurses at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center have voted to reject a tentative agreement that the union’s bargaining team reached with the health care organization earlier this month.

The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), which represents about 1,600 nurses at St. Vincent, held a news conference Thursday afternoon to announce the outcome. They did not share the exact vote totals, but said the vote was more than four-to-one to reject the contract.

“Put simply, hundreds of experienced frontline

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