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Workers rallied on Oct. 10, 2022, at Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, to protest working conditions.
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File: Necia Cage Pankey, a frontline worker at Kaiser Permanente’s Sunnyside Medical Center, chants with the crowd at a press conference held at the Oregon AFL-CIO offices in Portland, Sept. 14, 2023. SEIU members who work at Kaiser ended their strike at 6 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, though members of another union remained on strike.
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CareOregon is among 16 coordinated care organizations in Oregon serving Medicaid members.
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Nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association through the Association of University Registered Nurses and their supporters crowded into Elizabeth Caruthers Park on Sept. 18, 2023 to announce they were prepared to strike as negotiations with Oregon Health & Science University remain at a stalemate.
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The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
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Kayla Medina, center, claps during a drug court session on Oct. 3, 2023. Medina is among those opposing plans to end Cowlitz County's mental health sales tax.
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Ron Irby had an Optetrak artificial knee implanted in his right leg in September 2018. Most implants last 15 years or more, but Irby’s Optetrak implant, made by Exactech in Gainesville, Florida, wore out in 2021, according to a lawsuit he filed against the company.
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