The Oregon Labor Dispatch: December 4, 2025
SUPPORT WORKERS
These 135 vital healthcare workers are fighting for a contract that prioritizes the wellbeing of providers and patients. Support Here.
Support the Strike Fund for Union Starbucks Workers
Help 12,000+ baristas fight and win their union contracts! Your support and solidarity means the world to our worker-led union. Donate Here.
WORK WITH US!
Climate Jobs Oregon Executive Director
Help labor organizations advocating for a pro-worker, pro-climate agenda in Oregon! Apply here.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Legacy Good Samaritan Rally
Dec. 6 at 11am at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center
Help Legacy APPs secure a first contract!
Partners: How Starbucks Baristas Started a Revolution w/Q&A
Dec. 9 at 6:30pm at Art House in Eugene
Eugene-Springfield DSA is excited to partner with Working Films to bring this free screening to our area during the peak of the Starbucks Workers United holiday season strike. More Info Here.
Day Without an Immigrant/Día Sin Un Inmigrante
Dec. 18
PCUN is calling for a series of general strikes that center and empower immigrant workers in a time when many fear to leave their homes. They are asking for solidarity in joining in standing with farmworkers and immigrant workers across the state.
MUST READ
Legacy Health nurse practitioners, other medical specialists on strike in Oregon, SW Washington
Dec. 4, 2025 | Oregonian
Nurse practitioners, physician associates, clinical nurse specialists and others Legacy Health medical professionals are on strike, the Oregon Nurses Association said.
Dec. 2, 2025 | OPB
The closure is far from unique. Six rural hospitals in Oregon and Washington have closed their obstetrics units since 2020, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.
OREGON LABOR NEWS
Who’s running for office in Oregon in 2026?
Dec. 3, 2025 | Oregon Capital Chronicle
Next November, Oregon voters will elect a U.S. senator, six members of Congress, governor, labor commissioner, 15 state senators and 60 state representatives, as well as hundreds of local officeholders.
After 34 months of talks, New Seasons workers set strike date
Nov. 20, 2025 | NW Labor Press
New Seasons Market workers at 10 locations have authorized a strike that could start Dec. 17. More than three years after the first location formed the New Seasons Labor Union (NSLU), workers are still bargaining for a first contract.
FEDERAL ATTACKS
What to know about the administration’s plan to withhold states’ money to manage SNAP food aid
Dec. 3, 2025 | AP
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said this week that the federal government would start withholding money to help run the SNAP food aid program from states that don’t provide data on participants, including their immigration status.
Plan to break up the Education Department would strain other agencies, Democrats and students warn
Dec. 3, 2025 | Government Executive
Lawmakers and student leaders say shifting major Education Department programs to other federal departments after deep layoffs and downsizing would create service gaps, weaken oversight and leave vulnerable students without support.
ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS
US pauses all immigration applications from 19 non-European countries
Dec. 3, 2025 | Reuters
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it paused all immigration applications, including green card and U.S. citizenship processing, filed by immigrants from 19 non-European countries, citing concerns over national security and public safety.
THE LABOR MOVEMENT
We Can’t Bridge the U.S.-Mexico Wage Gap Without Supporting Organizing in Mexico
Nov. 18, 2025 | Labor Notes
The Mexican government is failing to prosecute violent retaliation and threats against workers who organize, says a new report, putting Mexico out of compliance with its trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada.