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Workers Speak Out as OHSU's Board Weighs Plans to Cut 500+ Jobs and Slash Health Insurance After Signing a Billion Dollar Merger Deal with Legacy Health.
Workers’ Rally at OHSU Board Meeting
Friday, June 28
1 p.m.
OHSU Robertson Life Sciences Building
Room 3A001
2730 S. Moody Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97201
OHSU BOD Meetings are live streamed here: https://www.youtube.com/live/SLCTgGMGzrw
Frontline nurses, healthcare workers, researchers and other essential staff at OHSU will be available for interviews by request. See press contacts below to coordinate.
WHAT: Healthcare, university and research workers, along with other essential staff at OHSU, will attend the OHSU Board of Directors meeting June 28—the board’s first public meeting since announcing plans to cut 500+ jobs and slash health insurance benefits at the same time it spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to increase executive pay, pay out a former executive’s salary and health benefits, and finalize its $1 billion merger with Legacy Health.
Workers plan to deliver a petition–signed by nearly 4,500 supporters—to OHSU executives calling on the board to prioritize workers’ jobs and benefits over executive compensation and bonuses and work to maintain and expand health insurance coverage for the workers who keep OHSU running and their families.
WHO: Essential caregivers and workers at OHSU from multiple unions including the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) and Oregon AFSCME which collectively represent more than 16,500 nurses, advanced practice providers, certified nursing assistants, medical assistants, pharmacists, techs, physical therapists, house officers, research staff, graduate students, and custodial, administrative and IT staff at OHSU among others.
WHY: OHSU executives are attempting to eliminate more than 500 full-time jobs and cut health care coverage for thousands of remaining workers. At the same time it’s firing frontline workers and cutting healthcare coverage, OHSU executives are also:
- Spending upwards of $1 billion to acquire Legacy Health and its $738 million debt liability.
- Handing out more than $15 million in bonuses to OHSU executives.
- Paying its president an additional $350,000 annually in retirement raises.
- Spending nearly $700 million on new construction and real estate purchases.
- Offering more than half a million dollars to a former executive.
Frontline healthcare, researchers and other essential workers are pushing back against OHSU’s ‘executive-first’ spending plans and demanding OHSU invest its billions in the people and resources needed to improve patient care and create healthier communities both now and into the future.