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The Oregon Labor Dispatch: July 10, 2025

The Oregon Labor Dispatch is a weekly email and blog series designed to keep Oregon’s workers informed of the latest news about unions, worker power, and much more. Each week, we bring you a curated selection of news stories, graphics, and information about upcoming events and actions. When Oregon’s Labor Movement is connected, updated and informed we are able to be stronger advocates for all working Oregonians.


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🗓️ UPCOMING EVENTS


Portland Pride Festival 2025

July 19 & 20 in Portland

March in solidarity with Oregon's Labor Movement in the Pride Parade on Sunday, July 20th, then visit our booth at the Portland Waterfront Pride Festival.


📣 TAKE ACTION

We are asking Oregon Labor to mobilize in this fight by lending us member organizers, leaders and organizing staff to join in making organizing calls to AFGE members. We will have in-person and remote options available from 5:00 - 8:00pm on Monday, July 14. RSVP today to sign up!

 

The Bulletin and Redmond Spokesman in Oregon are negotiating our first contract. The current owners of The Bulletin want to lay off more journalists including the health and business reporter and two photographers. Sign the petition to urge Carpenter Media to propose a reasonable wage. 


🛠️ LABOR JOBS

 


📖 MUST WATCH

July 6, 2025 | MSNBC


🏔️ OREGON LABOR

July 8, 2025 | OPB

Farmers say some workers are afraid of making the journey up from California out of fear they could get pulled over or detained by ICE.

 

July 10, 2025 | Oregon Center for Public Policy

It's hard to overstate the danger that lies ahead for many families in Oregon and across the country, especially the families already struggling the most to stay afloat economically, as a result of the budget reconciliation law passed by Congress. 


⚠️FEDERAL ATTACKS 

July 4, 2025 | AP

Critics assailed the package as a giveaway to the rich that will rob millions more lower-income people of their health insurance, food assistance and financial stability.

 

July 9, 2025 | The Washington Post

The decision will imperil federal services nationwide, said Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the nation’s largest federal union, which helped bring the suit. 

 

July 7, 2025 | AP

President Donald Trump is reshaping a student loan cancellation program into what some fear will become a tool for political retribution, taking aim at organizations that serve immigrants and transgender youth. 


🚨ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS

July 7, 2025 | Reuters

A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that Kilmar Abrego's legal challenge to his wrongful deportation to El Salvador can continue despite the decision by President Donald Trump's administration to bring him back to the United States to face criminal charges. 


🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 THE LABOR MOVEMENT 

July 8, 2025 | Labor Notes

Facing an emboldened Trump administration, union members across the country are in an intensifying battle to keep their members—and all workers, whether or not they are in unions—free and safe from federal immigration authorities.


📣 STRIKES & COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

July 9, 2025 | CBS News

Members of AFSCME District Council 33, Philadelphia's largest municipal union, reached a tentative new contract agreement with the city Wednesday, ending a labor strike that began at midnight last Tuesday. 


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