Oregon Labor Dispatch: October 2, 2025
- Oregon AFL-CIO
- Oct 2
- 3 min read
Curated news stories, graphics, and information for Oregon’s workers.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Starbucks Workers United Practice Pickets
Sept. 28 and Oct. 4 at Stucki Avenue Store at 2:30pm and Pioneer Courthouse Square Store at 12pm
Support Starbucks workers as they fight for a fair contract!
Oct. 2, at Elizabeth Caruthers Park at 12pm
Join workers in calling on OHSU to deliver fair and livable wages for all AFSCME members during a time of rising costs and to bring stability to our work with real proposals at the bargaining table.
Oct. 4 at the Graduate Hotel in Eugene at 4:30pm
Join hundreds of educators from across Oregon, local labor unions of all types, students and the community to march for our students, our community, and our democracy!
📖 MUST READ
Oct. 1, 2025 | AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement after the federal government’s funding expired at midnight and a shutdown began.
Sept. 30, 2025 | ODOJ
Attorney General Dan Rayfield today announced the launch of a new Economic Justice Section: The Working Families Unit.
🏔️ OREGON LABOR NEWS
Sept. 29, 2025 | OPB
Exactly one month after they convened to pass a road funding bill, Oregon Democrats finally crossed the finish line Monday.
Sept. 28, 2025 | KGW
Hundreds gathered Sunday at the waterfront to protest the Trump administration’s plan to deploy Guard troops here.
⚠️FEDERAL ATTACKS
Sept. 30, 2025 | Common Dreams
Just hours before an expected US government shutdown, two major unions for federal workers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in hopes of protecting them from the Trump administration’s threat of mass firings.
Sept. 26, 2025 | Federal News Network
Over 30,000 federal correctional officers have lost their collective bargaining abilities, after the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced it was ending its union contract with the American Federation of Government Employees.
🚨ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS
Sept. 26, 2025 | The New York Times
The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to uphold President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, the long-held principle that children born on American soil are automatically citizens.
🫱🏼🫲🏽 THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Sept. 30, 2025 | In These Times
Workers’ pensions can help seed the ground for the next generation of union members. It’s time to go on offense.
🖼️ GRAPHICS TO SHARE
Following the Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops to the streets of Portland, we’ve put together a toolkit for Oregon Labor to educate our members and allies to get involved and take action:
Our toolkit includes talking points, social media graphics and templates, and direct action for you and your members to take.
If you have a news story, event or action you’d like to see featured in the Oregon Labor Dispatch please reply to this email or email us at communications@oraflcio.org.
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