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The Oregon Labor Dispatch: July 17, 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


THIS WEEKEND: 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.Click here to register to march in the parade


📣 TAKE ACTION

Local journalists are a necessary part of our state’s democracy, but with papers closing across the state, we can’t afford more layoffs. Join Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild in their fight by sending a letter to Carpenter Media!

 

We have the votes in Congress to overturn President Trump’s executive order busting federal workers’ union rights. Call your rep right now and tell them to sign the discharge petition to bring the Protect America’s Workforce Act to the floor for a vote.


🛠️ LABOR JOBS

 


📖 MUST READ

July 16, 2025 | In These Times

The budget bill passed by Republicans and signed by President Trump represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery.


🏔️ OREGON LABOR

July 14, 2025 | Oregon Capital Chronicle

Oregon’s labor bureau says it will stop prioritizing wage claims based on income by the end of 2025 after a significant funding boost approved by state lawmakers will allow the agency to tackle backlogs that have left wage theft and discrimination claims unresolved for years.

 

July 16, 2025 | Willamette Week

Another 200 nurses at Legacy Health hospitals in Oregon and Washington voted to join the Oregon Nurses Association last week, pushing the union’s representation to a new high in the hospital system.


⚠️FEDERAL ATTACKS 

July 11, 2025 | Reuters

A federal judge in Texas on Friday granted a request from the Trump administration and industry groups to scrap regulations adopted during the final days of Joe Biden's presidency that would have removed consumers' medical debts from their credit reports, court papers showed. 

 

July 11, 2025 | The Washington Post

The State Department began firing more than 1,300 employees via email on Friday as a part of the Trump administration’s plans to downsize government and cut back on what it called “bloat” and inefficiencies. 

 

July 14, 2025 | Reuters

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education, part of his bid to shrink the federal government's role in education in favor of more control by the states. 


🚨ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS

July 14, 2025 | NPR

Another round of immigration judges received an email on Friday informing them they are being let go, NPR has learned, adding to the growing list of immigration court personnel cut by President Trump amid his efforts to speed up deportations of immigrants without legal status.


🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 THE LABOR MOVEMENT 

July 16, 2025 | Labor Notes

Heat, smoke, flooding, hurricanes, fires, turbulence—on the job, workers are already facing the ravages of a changing climate. These problems are ripe for organizing—usually everyone is feeling it. Often it’s very clear what solution would help, and who could deliver it.


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