Members of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals will walk picket lines for a second day Monday near the corner of 27th Street and Neff Road. More than a hundred technical workers at St. Charles Bend have been in wage negotiations with the federation to secure their first contract since January - and are still without one after meeting nearly 30 times, even through Covid. The hospital says the picket is purely informational and doesn’t represent a work stoppage of any kind, and says St. Charles Bend will operate normally while the picketing’s going on. It began today.
