Providence Health & Services and its unionized workers in Oregon appear to remain deadlocked a week into the largest health care strike in Oregon history. Nearly 5,000 Providence nurses and about 150 doctors and advanced practitioners walked off the job early last Friday.

Here's what you need to know about the strike of nearly 5,000 health care workers, including doctors and nurses.

Nearly 5,000 nurses, doctors and other health workers at Providence Health & Services hospitals and clinics in Oregon walked off their jobs beginning 6 a.m. Friday. It was set to be the largest ...

Oregon faces its largest healthcare worker strike, with 5,000 doctors and nurses from Providence Health on strike with no set end date.

Nearly 5,000 nurses, doctors and other health workers at Providence Health & Services hospitals and clinics in Oregon are walking off their jobs beginning 6 a.m. Friday. It is set to be the largest strike by health workers in the state’s history — and the first involving a union representing doctors.

The strike comes on the eve of Trump’s inauguration and the impending escalation of attacks on public health, medical workers and the working class as a whole.

Oregon’s Providence hospitals and nearly 5,000 of its workers have yet to agree on terms to bump wages and address staffing shortages. That means the largest health care strike in the state’s history will begin Friday morning.

Five days after the Oregon Nurses Association launched the largest health care strike in state history, both the union and Providence Health say they are ready to resume bargaining through a federal mediator. That does not mean the strike’s end is near. But it does represent a change.

Roughly 5,000 health care providers are striking over staffing levels, pay, and benefits. Negotiations have been going on for over a year. More news is on overdose deaths, abortion pill bans, and more.

At the entrance to Providence Seaside Hospital Friday morning, dozens of nurses, many clad in green rain ponchos bearing the Oregon Nurses Association logo, gathered in the drizzle wielding picket signs.

This comes after ONA and Providence have been at odds over a new contract, following the old deal at the Medford facility expiring on March 24. In the most recent development, the two groups bargained for five days until Dec. 20. After a "cool-down" period that ended on Dec. 26, ONA announced the strike on Dec. 30.