Providence, health care strike

About 5,000 frontline health professionals at Providence Health & Services are slated to walk off the job starting 6 a.m.
Nearly 5,000 nurses, doctors and other health workers at Providence Health & Services hospitals and clinics in Oregon are walking off their jobs beginning 6 a.m. Friday.
The walkout of 5,000 health care workers, including some doctors and nurses, marks the largest strike of its kind in Oregon history, according to the union.
Thousands of nurses at eight Providence hospitals are on strike Friday morning, and for the first time in Oregon history, ...