Hospital workers seeking union
Source: Register-Guard
By Sherri Buri McDonald
Frontline workers, from housekeepers to certified nursing assistants, at PeaceHealth’s Sacred Heart hospitals in Springfield and Eugene are trying to unionize to improve staffing and boost their wages and benefits.
Seeking a stronger, united voice, frontline workers last week filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board. It contained signatures from 65 percent of the group’s 1,000 employees, said Anna Blackman, a certified nursing assistant at Sacred Heart and member of the union organizing committee.
“We believe (support) will be even higher when we come to vote,” she said, adding that the date of the secret-ballot election for workers to decide whether to unionize has not been set yet.
An organizing committee of about 100 employees has been working for the past year to have the larger group of workers be represented by SEIU Local 49, Blackman said.
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