Copy of The Oregon Labor Dispatch: November 20, 2025
- Oregon AFL-CIO
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Curated news stories, graphics, and information for Oregon’s workers.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Nov. 20 from 6-7pm at NECA-IBEW Electrical Training Center
OFNHP is inviting you to join us for a Community Roundtable with patients, nurses and healthcare workers, elected officials, and other community members to learn more about what’s at stake for Kaiser patients and the people who provide their care. RSVP Here.
Nov. 24 from 5-7pm at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church
Support our immigrant neighbors and get whistle training! We will review the basics of calling into PIRC, help make whistle kits or you can pick up whistle kits! Blow the whistle on ICE!
Dec. 4 from 5-7pm at the Oregon Labor Center
If you are a woman and are union member, join us to hear from women's committees across the federation. This is an inclusive space and queer-friendly space. We will be selecting a new steering committee and mapping the year ahead. A light dinner is provided. RSVP Here.
MUST READ
Nov. 12, 2025 | OPB
At a city council meeting Wednesday, Newport residents also voiced their concerns about the relocation of the U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter ahead of Oregon crabbing season.
Nov. 17, 2025 | AFL-CIO
A discharge petition on the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) reached 218 signatures today, mandating the House of Representatives vote on restoring union rights to federal workers within seven legislative days.
OREGON LABOR NEWS
Nov. 18, 2025 | Willamette Week
The 8,000 or so OHSU workers represented by Local 328 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees cannot go on strike before Dec. 12, as an ongoing 30-day “cooling off” period in the negotiations runs its course.
Nov. 19, 2025 | Street Roots
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste is the state’s first farmworkers union, its work continues to focus on championing farmworkers rights.
Nov. 19, 2025 | Oregonian
Oregon state economists delivered some good and bad news to lawmakers on Wednesday. The good news: the state’s forecasted budget deficit has shrunk from more than $370 million to $63 million.
FEDERAL ATTACKS
Nov. 19, 2025 | NPR
House lawmakers have collected enough signatures to force a vote on a bill that would nullify President Trump's executive order terminating collective bargaining rights for most federal workers.
Nov. 19, 2025 | Wired
US President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order that would seek to challenge state efforts to regulate artificial intelligence through lawsuits and the withholding of federal funding, WIRED has learned.
ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS
Nov. 18, 2025 | The Oregonian
A federal immigration official has revealed that government agents made over 560 immigration-related arrests last month in the Portland area – far more than the previously reported estimate from a local coalition that relies on volunteer-confirmed numbers.
THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Nov. 13, 2025 | In These Times
As its workers fight for a living wage and demand that the company address hundreds of labor violation complaints, Starbucks Workers United says it’s prepared for the “biggest and longest” strike in the company’s history.