The Oregon Labor Dispatch: December 18, 2025
- Oregon AFL-CIO
- 15 hours ago
- 3 min read
Curated news stories, graphics, and information for Oregon’s workers.
As we end the year, we want to celebrate the immense wins workers made in the past 12 months. Keep an eye out for our annual newsletter wrapping 2025. The Oregon Labor Dispatch will return in the new year. Happy Holidays!
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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PCUN is calling for a series of general strikes that center and empower immigrant workers in a time when many fear to leave their homes. They are asking for solidarity in joining in standing with farmworkers and immigrant workers across the state.Â
MUST READ
Dec. 15, 2025 | The Oregonian
Eighty medical providers at Legacy Health plan to hold two-day solidarity strikes to support their Oregon Nurses Association-represented colleagues already on strike.
OREGON LABOR NEWS
Dec. 16, 2025 | Portland Mercury
After threatening to strike, unionized workers voted Monday to ratify a contract with increased wages and better health insurance protections.
Dec. 17, 2025 | Portland Mercury
Citing a desire for clear job descriptions, a cap on weekly hours worked, and greater stability for the city, Council office employees form new Council Alliance of Workers.
Dec. 17, 2025 | Willamette Week
Oregon Health & Science University and a union representing about 8,000 of its workers have settled on a new contract, union leaders announced Wednesday, diminishing the chance of a major labor conflict at Oregon’s flagship medical institution.
FEDERAL ATTACKS
Dec. 17, 2025 | Reuters
An expanded U.S. federal healthcare subsidy that grew out of the pandemic looked all but certain to expire on December 31, as Republicans on Wednesday blocked a last-ditch effort by Democrats to maintain it.
Dec. 17, 2025 | In These Times
President Trump escalated his administration’s war on the federal workforce and workers’ rights when he signed an executive order to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions across the government.
ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS
Dec. 15, 2025 | AP
Kilmar Abrego Garcia wasn’t an activist and he didn’t choose to become locked in to what has become one of the most contentious immigration issues of the Trump administration, his lawyer told The Associated Press on Monday.
THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Dec. 18, 2025 | Labor Tribune
Republicans and Democrats successfully use discharge petition for vote to overturn Trump executive order