The monthly Spark Weeks at OHSU are intended to promote healthy eating and reward employees for their service. However, there is another perspective to Spark Week — that of the workers who make and serve the food. For the employees of Food and Nutrition Services, Spark Week is a seven-day test of their mental and physical safety, a monthly ritual that reminds them that their safety and concerns come secondary to making OHSU look good via internal promotions and branding.
Read MoreOHSU’s Women in Academic Health & Medicine Committee joins the growing group of internal organizations demanding swift, decisive and lasting change following the sexual-misconduct lawsuit against OHSU that came to light last weekend.
Read MoreIt can be easy to get caught up in what’s happening in the moment and what still needs to be done. Our union wants to take a moment to acknowledge the work we’ve done over the last year and some plans that are in the works.
Read MoreAs I near 20 years of employment at OHSU, the greatest gift I can give myself, other employees and the employer itself, is to give my all to make things better for OHSU employees — those who are at OHSU now, those whose tenure will continue after I leave OHSU and those whose OHSU employment will begin long after I’m gone.
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