The Oregon Labor Dispatch: September 11, 2025
- Oregon AFL-CIO
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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
Rally and Pack the Board of Trustees to Protest Layoffs at University of Oregon
Sept. 16, 9:00am-12:30pm at Concordia UO Campus Center Building
The University of Oregon has laid off over a hundred workers this year, including union leaders at UAUO and UOSW, and has announced additional layoffs this week. To fight back, members from UAUO, GTFF, and UOSW will hold an action during the University of Oregon Board of Trustees meeting.
Independent Police Review Practice Picket
Sept. 17 at 12:00pm at Portland City Hall
Oregon AFSCME represented Independent Police Review investigators are currently in negotiations. The city is in the process of re-organizing the police review office and board that governs these external investigations and has been unwilling to reach an agreement with workers that guarantees job retention as investigators, even suggesting AFSCME will no longer represent these vital workers.
OFNHP LabCorp Rally
Sept. 17, 11:30am-2:30pm at OFNHP Tigard Office
Amid bargaining their first contract,OFNHP represented LabCorp workers are holding a tailgate rally and BBQ at OFNHP’s Tigard union office at 11560 SW 67th Ave during a bargaining session to demonstrate that patients and workers stand together for safe, dignified healthcare jobs and a strong public health system.
Central Oregon NewsGuild Info Picket
Sept. 20, 1:00-2:00pm at Peace Corner in Bend
The Central Oregon NewsGuild and the dedicated workers at the Bend Bulletin are holding an informational picket this month to raise awareness around Carpenter Media’s proposed cuts to the paper as the workers fight to secure a first contract.
📖 MUST READ
Sept. 6, 2025 | KATU
At the 2025 biennial Oregon AFL-CIO Convention, union delegates from across the state voted overwhelmingly to endorse the Equal Rights for All ballot measure.
Sept. 7, 2025 | Daily Astorian
Over 200 union members and workers spilled out onto the sidewalks of Seaside Saturday for an “Oregon Labor Takes on the Billionaire Takeover” rally.
🏔️ OREGON LABOR
Sept. 8, 2025 | NW Labor Press
Oaks Amusement Park in Southeast Portland was once again the site of the region’s largest Labor Day picnic Sept. 1. After a five-year hiatus, Northwest Oregon Labor Council returned to host thousands of union families for hot dogs, union craft booths, and amusement park rides.
Sept. 7, 2025 | Oregon AFL-CIO
The 59th Biennial Convention adjourned on Saturday, September 6 after two full days of engaging speakers, union solidarity, and delegates and guests coming together to create the largest gathering of Oregon Labor in the state!
⚠️FEDERAL ATTACKS
Social Security office that helps members of Congress assist their constituents slashed by up to 94%
Sept. 9, 2025 | Government Executive
A Social Security Administration office tasked with resolving beneficiary issues brought to its attention by federal legislators has shrunk from about 50 employees to as few as three, according to an agency employee.
Sept. 9, 2025 | AP
The Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Tuesday, putting a policy at the center of his economic agenda squarely before the nation’s highest court.
Sept. 8, 2025 | Reuters
A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that 19 mostly Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C., cannot pursue a legal challenge to the mass firings of 25,000 recently hired federal workers carried out by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
🚨ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS
Sept. 9, 2025 | The New York Times
For much of the summer, undocumented immigrants in the Los Angeles region had lived in fear of being swept up in federal immigration raids. Many rarely ventured out as masked, heavily armed agents arrested thousands of people as they went about their daily lives. In recent weeks, however, a sense of normalcy had quietly returned after a judge in Los Angeles temporarily blocked what local officials and activists had described as random, indiscriminate raids.
Sept. 8, 2025 | The Washington Post
The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it has launched an immigration enforcement operation here as part of the Trump administration’s effort to target “sanctuary cities,” and immigrant advocates said several people in heavily Hispanic communities have been detained.
🫱🏼🫲🏽 THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Sept. 10, 2025 | In These Times
Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require more than one or two favorable election cycles. It will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us.
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