The Oregon Labor Dispatch: October 23, 2025
- Oregon AFL-CIO
- 11 minutes ago
- 3 min read
Curated news stories, graphics, and information for Oregon’s workers.
RESOURCES
🚨It’s day 23 of the government shutdown, and federal workers are hurting. If you’ve been impacted by the shutdown, view our Oregon-specific and federal resources for government workers.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UFW Rally to Support Windmill Farm Boycott
Oct. 26 at 2pm at Grocery Outlet in Salem
Research Workers United OHSU Rally
Oct. 30 from 4-7pm at Mac Hall Lawn
Sign a strike pledge card on Oct. 30 from 4-7pm and hear from RWU speakers at Mac Hall Lawn.
Free Showing of PARTNERS
Nov. 2 at 3pm at 5th Avenue Cinema
The film, produced by Working Films, a national nonprofit organization based in North Carolina, tells the story of how Starbucks baristas started a labor revolution, featuring on-the-ground footage from workers and organizers. The film will be followed by a panel discussion and Q/A session with Chris Sessions, the film maker, and two Portland-area Starbucks Workers United union members.
📖 MUST READ
Oct. 15, 2025 | NW Labor Press
Read Oregon AFL-CIO President Graham Trainor’s latest piece in the Northwest Labor Press.
Oct. 20, 2025 | OPB
The appeals court overturned the ruling of a lower court judge in Oregon, which could pave the way for President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland.
🏔️ OREGON LABOR NEWS
Oct. 20, 2025 | KGW
About 4,000 healthcare workers returned to Kaiser Permanente facilities in Oregon and southwest Washington on Sunday morning after a five-day strike, with contract negotiations scheduled to resume Wednesday.
⚠️FEDERAL ATTACKS
Oct. 21, 2025 | KGW
With a federal government shutdown extending into its 22nd day, there is growing worry among people who rely on food benefits.
Oct. 21, 2025 | The Nation
As I reported for In These Times, the rule would have cut the allowable exposure level of the deadly dust—20 times more toxic than coal dust and a major cause of black lung disease among coal miners—in half.
Oct. 21, 2025 | Reuters
President Donald Trump on Tuesday rebuffed a request by top Democratic lawmakers to meet until the three-week-old U.S. government shutdown ends.
Oct. 22, 2025 | The New York Times
Family health insurance coverage for the vast majority of American workers reached an average of $27,000 this year, with little relief expected next year, according to a survey released Wednesday by KFF, a health research group.
🚨ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS
Oct. 21, 2025 | Politico
A panel of federal appeals court judges appeared deeply skeptical Tuesday of the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil using an obscure provision of immigration law.
Patch
By Associated Press
Oct. 20, 2025
The leader of a labor union in Southern California who was arrested while protesting an immigration raid earlier this year will have his felony obstruction charge reduced to a misdemeanor, court records show.
🫱🏼🫲🏽 THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Oct. 20, 2025 | In These Times
Seven million people turned out for No Kings marches across the U.S., but now what? Unions will play a key role.
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