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Oregon Nurses Association

Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) has "has led the way for nurses and patients and made a difference in nursing practice, politics and labor."

The Oregon Nurses Association is "affiliated with the American Nurses Association (ANA), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the AFL-CIO, and the National Federation of Nurses (NFN)"

About

From the Oregon Nurses Association website:[1]

"From its beginnings as the Oregon State Association of Trained Nurses to the present, the Oregon Nurses Association has led the way for nurses and patients and made a difference in nursing practice, politics and labor."

Democratic Socialists of America Connection

Screenshot of DSA Mass Email Supporting the AFL-CIO Nurses Strike
Oregon Nurses Association 'Strike Map'

From a mass email dated June 15, 2024 by the Portland branch of Democratic Socialists of America titled "Support Oregon's Largest Nurse Strike in History June 18-20", Portland Democratic Socialists of America:

"Nurses at Providence hospitals are taking a stand against corporate healthcare next week, when they will strike at six Oregon hospitals June 18-20.
From the Oregon Nurses Association ~
Providence is hemorrhaging caregivers and it's harming your health. Support the local nurses who are fighting back!
Every day more and more Providence nurses leave the bedside. They leave because they are chronically understaffed, unable to deliver the quality of care they know their patients deserve. Below-market wages and benefits make it impossible to recruit and retain enough nurses for the hospitals in Portland, Hood River, or Medford. This understaffing results in delayed care and preventable harm to Providence patients.
We are taking a stand for our patients and our communities by fighting for fair contracts that raise standards and improve our communities’ health and safety by recruiting, retaining and respecting the frontline nurses who care for you and your loved ones. But we need your help!
Oregon Nurses Association Plans 3-Day Strike at Six Providence Hospital Locations
June 18-20, 2024 | Six Providence Hospitals in Oregon
Oregon Nurses Association members across the state are demanding Providence give them a fair contract that is in compliance with Oregon’s Safe Staffing law and prioritizes affordable, quality healthcare. Nurses are also demanding that Providence executives increase their focus on recruiting, retaining, and respecting frontline nurses.

A link to the AFL-CIO "strike map" was included.[2]

ONA Racial Justice And Covid-19 Discussion Series

ONA Racial Justice And Covid-19 Discussion Series

Excerpt from the Oregon Nurses Association website:[3]

Join the Oregon Nurses Association, for our "Racial Justice and COVID-19 Discussion Series" examining the intersection of nursing, race, and health care access or utilization disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As nurses, we are called upon to care for black and brown patients who face lifelong, systematic barriers to health care access and to utilization. Too often, barriers exist even for POC [People of Color] patients to be believed and heard. We see the disparities in our health care system every day as we fight for our patients and advocate for the life saving care they deserve yet so often can’t attain.
ONA is proud to hold a discussion series to bring together nurses from across the state with community leaders to have important and difficult conversations.
  • Friday, August 7: Asians and Pacific Islanders in Health Equity
On Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, ONA held another installment of the Racial Justice and COVID-19 Discussion Series examining the intersection of nursing, race, and health care access or utilization disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Asians and Pacific Islanders in Health Equity: Nurses and Community Speak" featured the following panelists discussing ongoing work in advancing health care and racial equity, barriers the Asian/Pacific Islander (API) community face and recommendations to break down the barriers.
  • Pa Vue, RN, BSN; AURN Secretary; ONA Nurse Leadership Institute Alumni
  • Alyshia Macaysa; Principal at Macaysa Consulting, Health Equity Strategist and Community Organizer
  • Jackie Leung, JD, MS; Community Health Worker Supervisor and Executive Director of Micronesian Islander Community
  • Wednesday, June 10: Continued Health Care Disparities in Oregon's Latinx Community During COVID-19
On Wednesday, June 10, we examined why the Latinx community in Oregon has been impacted disproportionately by COVID-19 and what can be done going forward to address this inequity.
Our panelists shared their ongoing work, the barriers their Latinx communities are facing and their recommendations to address these barriers.
You can learn more about the Oregon Worker Relief Fund...

Friday, May 1: Racial Justice and Covid-19

  • On Friday, May 1, ONA held our inaugural livestream discussion examining the intersection of health care, racial justice, and COVID-19. We welcomed three panelists:

ONA Health Equity Conference: A Vision for Equity and Nursing

ONA Health Equity Conference: A Vision for Equity and Nursing

Oregon Nurses Association held a conference titled "Health Equity Conference: A Vision for Equity and Nursing".

Excerpt from the Oregon Nurses Association website:[4]

ONA is proud to be at the forefront of improving diversity, equity, and inclusion practices within the nursing profession. ONA will host our first-ever Health Equity Conference, with the theme of “A Vision for Equity and Nursing,” on August 5-6, 2021 in the Pearl District in Portland.

Key Issues and Topics

"The crucial role that equity can, and must, play in nursing and in ensuring healthcare equity for all The connection between nursing practice and health equity Identifying opportunities for nursing practice to promote greater health equity for our patients and the communities we serve The dual impacts on our Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) nursing colleagues of system failures and facing bias, discrimination, and psychological trauma in the workplace The intersectionality of health as a commodity and its historical impacts on diverse communities How nurses are ideally positioned to be advocates to advance health equity..."

Schedule

  • Thursday, August 5, 2021, 8:30 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
  • Opening Remarks & Reflections Nursing’s Professional & Ethical Obligation to Advance Health Equity ONA’s Member Mandate; Board & Member Leaders’ Vision BIPOC Nurses: Professional Experiences, Lessons Learned & Opportunities Keynote: Health Equity as a Social Justice Imperative Immigrants, We Get the Job Done Closing and Debrief
  • Thursday, August 5, 2021, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
  • Evening Reception
  • Friday, August 6, 2021, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
  • Local Policy Tables: Priorities Local Health Equity Leaders (breakout session)
  • Health Equity and the APRN Practice (breakout session)
  • Intersections: Brewing A Movement; The Crossroads of Labor, Sex, Gender, Sexual Orientation & Race in One Members' Reflections Closing Remarks
  • Featured Speakers ONA is deeply honored to have confirmed keynote addresses by American Nurses Association President Ernie Grant (pre-recorded) and a live in-person address by Salon's Editor at Large and New York Times bestselling author D. Watkins. They will speak about the crucial role that equity can, and must, play in nursing and in ensuring healthcare equity for all.
A distinguished leader, Dr. Grant has more than 30 years of nursing experience and is an internationally recognized burn-care and fire-safety expert. He previously served as the burn outreach coordinator for the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals in Chapel Hill. In this role, Grant oversaw burn education for physicians, nurses, and other allied health care personnel and ran the center’s nationally acclaimed burn prevention program, which promotes safety and works to reduce burn-related injuries through public education and the legislative process. Grant also serves as adjunct faculty for the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing, where he works with undergraduate and graduate nursing students in the classroom and clinical settings...
D. Watkins is Editor at Large for Salon. His work has been published in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He holds a Master’s in Education from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Baltimore.
He is a college lecturer at the University of Baltimore and founder of the BMORE Writers Project, and has also been the recipient of numerous awards including the BMe Genius Grant, and the Ford's Men of Courage. Watkins was also a finalist for the Hurston Wright Legacy Award and Books for A Better Life. He has lectured at countless universities, and events, around the world. Watkins has been featured as a guest and commentator on NBC’s Meet the Press, CNN’s The Erin Burnett Show, Democracy Now and NPR’s Monday Morning, among other shows.
Watkins is from and lives in Baltimore. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America and The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir and We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America...
Allyson P. Brantley is an Assistant Professor of History & Director of Honors and Interdisciplinary Initiatives at the University of La Verne, in Southern California. She is also a recipient of a 2020-2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Fellowship from the W.W. Foundation.
Brantley is the author of Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors & Remade American Consumer Activism (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). Through research in organizational records, activist publications, and oral histories, Brantley positions the consumer campaign at the center of late 20th-century political culture and social movements. In this campaign, Latinx, labor, gay and lesbian, Black, feminist, environmentalist, indigenous, and student activists united in opposition to Coors – a product and company that, to them, symbolized the anti-union, anti-minority, and anti-women New Right. The Coors boycott became a means through which individuals made sense of and projected their own politics. Brantley argues that the act of non-consumption offered a platform for new alliances but also sparked tense debates over belonging, community, and corporate power, especially among Chicanxs, feminist, and gay and lesbian activists. At end, the boycott divided as much as it united. Additionally, her work highlights the boycott’s impact on the Coors Brewing Company and its conception of corporate social responsibility. Activists’ purchasing power and decisions influenced the terms by which the company came to discuss its corporate responsibility, philanthropy, and outreach efforts, which in turn set a model for other corporate leaders..."

Deborah Riddick was listed as a contact.

Board of Directors

2022-2023 Board of Directors

From the Oregon Nurses Association website:[5]

Executive Committee

Directors

2021-2022 Board of Directors

From the Oregon Nurses Association website:[6]

Executive Committee:

Directors

Administrative Staff

From the Oregon Nurses Association website as of May 14, 2023:[7]

Labor Staff

From the Oregon Nurses Association website as of May 14, 2023:[8]

Government Relations Staff

From the Oregon Nurses Association website as of May 14, 2023:[9]

Political Action Committees

Excerpt from the Oregon Nurses Association website as of May 14, 2023:[10]

About ONA's Political Action Committees

ONA maintains two Political Action Committees (PAC) to best serve our members’ interests. The Oregon Nurse Political Action Committee (ON-PAC) is focused on candidate work. Through ON-PAC, ONA interviews, endorses, and supports candidates for office who share our vision and, where applicable, have a record of supporting our legislative agenda. ON-PAC organizes grassroots activities to support endorsed candidates, including member communication, phone banks, and canvassing.
The Nurses United Political Action Committee (NU-PAC) is dedicated to advancing ONA policy priorities through Oregon’s ballot measure system. NU-PAC makes it a priority to defeat ballot measures which seek to limit the rights of employees to actively participate in union activities. NU-PAC also supports many initiatives related to health policy, or revenue measures for programs important to nurses. Like ON-PAC, NU-PAC organizes and supports grassroots activities including voter contact, member outreach, and coalition building.

PAC Officers

Both ON-PAC and NU-PAC are governed by a board of directors, which includes elected officers.

Candidate Endorsement Process

Candidates for the Oregon Legislature or statewide office must complete an interview with a group of nurses in their area, or with ON-PAC members. Following the interview with local nurses, ON-PAC will make a decision on an endorsement based on the interview, the candidate’s past voting record, and the candidate’s viability. Candidates running for re-election may receive an automatic endorsement based on their voting record and past support of ONA’s legislative agenda, or may also be asked to go through the interview process.

Ballot Measure Support

The Oregon Nurses Association Cabinet on Health Policy may take positions on any statewide ballot measures that affect nurses’ ability to collectively bargain, organize or participate in the political process; or on any health related measures that affect their patients’ ability to live a healthy life. NU-PAC acts to support ONA’s positions on ballot measures by allocating financial resources, and participating in or organizing grassroots campaign efforts. The Cabinet on Health Policy and NU-PAC prioritize ballot measures that adversely affect nurses’ ability to collectively bargain, organize or participate in the political process...

References

  1. ↑ Google Doc Archive from the Portland Democratic Socialists of America Organize for Power Platform (accessed May 13 2023)
  2. ↑ AFL-CIO Strike Map (accessed June 16, 2024)
  3. ↑ (accessed May 14, 2023)
  4. ↑ ONA Health Equity Conference: A Vision for Equity and Nursing (accessed May 14, 2023)
  5. ↑ 2022-2023 Board of Directors (accessed May 14, 2023)
  6. ↑ 2021-2022 Board of Directors (accessed May 14, 2023)
  7. ↑ Administrative Staff (accessed May 14, 2023)
  8. ↑ Labor Staff Administrative Staff (accessed May 14, 2023)
  9. ↑ Government Relations Staff (accessed May 14, 2023)
  10. ↑ Political Action Committees (accessed May 14, 2023)
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