The Oregon Labor Dispatch: July 10, 2025
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.
Click here to register to march in the parade
TAKE ACTION
Join the Federal Fight Back: Phone Bank to Support AFGE
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
Oregon AFL-CIO Hiring Statewide Political Organizer
MUST WATCH
National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the Federal Budget
July 6, 2025 | MSNBC
OREGON LABOR
Cherry harvest is well underway in Oregon. But some workers aren’t showing up
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.
Podcast: A disaster for struggling families
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
Trump signs his tax and spending cut bill at the White House July 4 picnic
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.
Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
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.
Trump is reshaping a student loan forgiveness program. Some fear politics will decide who qualifies
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
US judge rules Abrego's challenge to wrongful deportation can proceed
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
Philadelphia strike over as DC 33, city reach tentative deal; trash pickup to resume Monday
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.