On Strike for Over Six Weeks, Providence Caregivers Remain Steadfast for a Fair Contract!
Nurses and caregivers from all eight Providence hospitals across Oregon remain united and steadfast in their commitment to strike until the health system stops denying it’s caregivers a fair contract! The conditions that Nurses are asked to perform under are simply unsustainable to recruit Nurses to the bedside and the subsequent understaffing is simply unsafe for patients. To make matters worse, Providence’s recent threat to cut health care benefits puts caregivers at even greater risk.
The nearly 5,000 caregivers on strike want to hear about your care experiences since the strike began on January 10 at Providence. Fill out this survey –https://ow.ly/kGkt50UY1ut
Join Higher Ed Workers at OHSU Today at Noon to Say Hands Off Our Research, Our Jobs! Stop Trump’s NIH Funding Freezes Now! TODAY (WED 2/19) from 12 – 1pm at the OHSU Lower Tram
Trump’s latest executive orders are a direct attack on workers, higher education, and lifesaving research. He’s freezing funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation, sabotaging critical biomedical and scientific research. This freeze threatens thousands of jobs and will cause a crisis in higher education.
From campuses to Capitol Hill, college and university workers are taking action. Join us as we stand with research workers who need NIH funds to support their work! Demand funding for science, protections for research, and a future where knowledge serves the people—not corporate greed. If you are able to make it, register here to stay in the loop about additional upcoming actions!
TODAY: Stop Musk! Save Our Services Day of Action!
Federal workers jobs matter – they are nurses, scientists, park rangers, researchers, and attorneys who serve our communities every day. On this day of action, federal workers and community will rally to make it clear that the Trump administration’s attack on federal workers will only make our lives worse, and for the benefit of unelected billionaires like Elon Musk. Join us standing with federal workers and community in collective action to beat back the attacks on federal workers jobs and our public services!
Wednesday, February 19th at 4pm 911 Federal Building (911 NE 11th Ave) bit.ly/SOSAction
RUMBLE ON THE RIVER Community Forum #20
Rumble Run-Down Thursday, February 20th Doors & Info Tables 5:30 Panel 6:30 St Luke Lutheran Church 4595 SW California St Portland 97219 MAP
Rumble forums are always free.
Our panel will expose not One, but Four important issues of the day.
Zenith Energy’s Expansion Schemes, PGE’s Proposed Intrusion Into Forest Park, Pt Westward Plans: Massive Refinery & Rail Yard in the Columbia River Estuary, Surge of Artificial Intelligence & Data Centers—Threats To Oregon’s 45 Year Old Anti-Nuke Law
Panel
Karly Chin, Advocacy Program Coordinator with Bird Alliance Of Oregon Audrey Leonard, Staff Attorney with Columbia Riverkeeper Kate Murphy, Senior Community Organizer with Columbia Riverkeeper Barbara Bernstein, KBOO Radio’s Locus Focus Host & Media Gadfly
Renters Town Hall & Get Together for The Renter’s Bill of Rights
Sat. Feb. 22, 11:30-12:30pm Holgate Library (7905 SE Holgate Blvd, Bus Line 17)
Light refreshments provided, child watch in the new Kids’ Room. Five of twelve new City Councilors have endorsed the Renters Bill of Rights. Let’s decide how we push to make these reforms a reality in Portland. Meet other renters, talk about our issues, enjoy a social morning & help build Renter Power.
Worker Organizing and Resistance to Fascism: Lessons from the Philippines
Join SEIU Local 503 to hear firsthand accounts of the struggles of union workers in the Philippines, and how to support their campaigns for justice. We will hear from an SEIU member who recently returned from a labor solidarity trip to the Philippines. She will share stories of factory workers fighting a multinational tech corporation for a living wage, and union leaders standing strong despite harassment and threats by the military and police. We will also learn about local campaigns to support the rights of overseas Filipino workers and hold breakout groups to apply these lessons of international solidarity to our own workplace struggles.
Saturday, February 22nd from 2 – 4pm 525 NE Oregon St / Zoom
Special Black History Month Viewing – Outgrow the System
Join the special Black History Month viewing of the film, Outgrow the System, a documentary about transitioning to a sustainable economic system. Followed with a discussion and Q & A.
“Change the system, not the climate” is a common demand in the climate movement. But what kind of system do we actually want? In the midst of humanity’s worst crisis, the pioneers stand ready. Meet the new economic perspectives that have the potential to change the world at its core. This event is hosted by the Oregon Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and Extinction Rebellion in Portland, Oregon. RSVP and Sharethe Event Page Here!
Friday, February 21st from 7 – 9pm
Oregon AFL-CIO (3645 SE 32nd Ave)
“Fight Like Hell!” Contract Rally Sunday, February 23rd at 1pm East Portland Station (1020 SE 7th Ave)
Letter carriers have rejected a weak contract settlement and are demanding more. They are suffering from understaffing, overwork, and high turnover.
In “Fight Like Hell!” contract rallies across the country, letter carriers are calling for living wages, the end of mandatory overtime, and an all-career workforce (no two-tier.)
This rally is endorsed by National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 82.
PSU-AAUP Solidarity Fund, and Pledge to Support a Strike!
Members of Portland State University’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (PSU-AAUP) have been bargaining and rallying tirelessly to win just wages, stronger job and layoff protections, reasonable workloads, racial equity compensation, and enhanced member benefits for faculty and staff. For over 100 hours of bargaining, PSU administration has continued to stall on key issues for settling a fair contract, forcing nearly 1,200 members to prepare for an upcoming strike.
One Thousand Photos, One Thousand Shares! Sign the Pledge to Bring 1,000 Garment Workers to Nike’s Doorstep!
Over the past three months, the Fight the Heist worker activist committee in Indonesia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India organized a photo petition to Nike, resulting in 1,000 workers coming forward publicly for the first time with a message to Nike!
Sign the pledge below and commit to share the photo of garment workers on March 21st to send a message to Nike!
JWJ member organizations are joining the calls to connect to the campaign and global rank and file workers committees. If you are interested in connecting your members to cross border solidarity calls, please reach out to jeevamuhil@globallaborjustice.org!
Know Your Rights In Healthcare Locations: What ICE Can and Cannot Do
Under the current political climate, Federal Immigration officers (ICE) can now enter what used to be “sensitive or protected locations” including healthcare facilities. This puts our patients at risk and may conflict with HIPAA and our professional ethics. Join Healthcare Workers for Palestine for a virtual informational meeting with an attorney to inform HCWs to better protect the rights of patients and staff in healthcare settings. The presentation portion of the meeting will be recorded. Registration linkHERE.
Tuesday, February 25 from 6 – 8pm Register Here for the Zoom Link
Freelance Musicians Guild Solidarity Jam
Last Tuesdays, starting February 25th 7 – 10pm All Styles, Ages AFM Local 99 Hall (325 NE 20th)
The Freelance Musicians Guild is made up of gigging musicians that organize for labor rights in Portland. fmguildpdx@gmail.com
“The Revolution Continues” ‘Overcoming 21st Century Political Regression via the Voices of Our Ancestors’
Please Join us For a special Black History Month panel discussion ‘Overcoming 21st Century Political Regression via the Voices of Our Ancestors.’ Followed by what is likely to be a robust Q and A session. This event is sponsored by the Oregon Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, JwJ Portland Rising, and SEIU Local 503, AFRAM Caucus.
Moderated by: Mr. Vincent Blanco Jr.
Featuring:
• James Manning, Oregon Senator
• Vince Jones Dixon, Multnomah County Commissioner
Portland Rising is pleased to announce a new season of Portland Workers’ Assembly programs!
What We Can Win Together: Strategies from the Minnesota Community-Labor Movement
This free, in-
, person event is the first in a series of gatherings exploring how workers and community members can organize bold, strategic actions to fight for better wages, working conditions, and local policy changes. We’ll discuss key actions from the Minneapolis Week of Action and how they can inform labor and community organizing here in Portland. Join us for an important conversation and help shape the future of class struggle in our city! Masks required and provided. Saturday, March 8th from 2 – 4pm Portland Association of Teachers Hall (345 NE 8th Ave) RSVP Here: bit.ly/wecanwintogether
SAVE THE DATE – Labor Notes Troublemakers School Sat. May 3, 9am-5pm, location TBD
Join labor activists from Portland and beyond to strategize, share skills, and learn ways to organize to win. Troublemakers Schools are day-long mini-conferences with dozens of workshops that cover organizing skills and highlight real-world examples of taking on the boss and winning. For more info: labornotespdx@gmail.com
Raise Respiratory Therapist Wages to Retain and Attract Qualified Staff!
Right now the Respiratory Therapists (RTs) who work at Kaiser Northwest are fighting for living wages and safe staffing. They are currently paid far below market rate, which has led to a serious staffing shortage that is straining resources. These workers are concerned about the future of the care that is offered to our patients, particularly as COVID and RSV rates continue to skyrocket.
This is why they are asking our community to sign this petition, which sends an email directly to management demanding that they bargain with the union over market adjustments. This is the best way to ensure that we have safe staffing levels and that our RTs are treated with the respect they deserve. Every healthcare worker deserves to be able to afford to live in the community they serve! Sign and send a letter here!
Support Food for All Oregonians!
No one should have to choose between paying their bills or buying groceries.
Yet thousands of Oregonians are unfairly excluded from food assistance just because of immigration status. With your help, we can change that. As the federal administration threatens immigrant communities, now is the time to take action. More than 160 statewide organizations are advocating to pass Food for All Oregonians, which will make food assistance available to Oregon’s youth and elders who are currently excluded due to immigration status. Take action and stay updated by signing the Food for All Oregonians pledge.
Pressure to write personalized messages on every cup during an understaffed rush… it’s more common than you think! Starbucks baristas are organizing to fight back against inconsistent staffing, low hours, inaccessible benefits, and wages that aren’t keeping up with inflation. The new CEO Brian Niccol made $800k a DAY during his first few months at the company… and while he’s commuting on a private jet, retail Starbucks partners – the ones who really make this company run – are struggling on and off the floor. But it doesn’t need to be this way.
Nearly 550 stores and over 10k partners have joined Starbucks Workers United. In a year where there’s so much uncertainty in the year, the democratic, worker-led union is doing whatever it takes to codify protections and job upgrades in a union contract!
CAMPAIGN VICTORY: Justice for AJ campaign celebrates compensation for AJ’s family!
February 13, 2025
In mid November 2024, AJ’s family submitted their insurance claim in the Philippines in order to receive the proper compensation from the company that AJ was working for at the time of his death. The family was told they would hear back within a week, but after nearly eight weeks AJ’s family had communicated to us that there had been no movement on their claim – that J.J. Ugland was not responsive. At the end of January, AJ’s family finally received confirmation regarding their son’s death insurance claim – their family will be receiving compensation of 50,000 USD.
We celebrate the family’s forthcoming compensation from the J.J Ugland Company, though it does not take away from the unnecessary loss of AJ’s life as an overseas Filipino seafarer. It is because of the decisive efforts of AJ’s family and the mass movement to relentlessly pursue Justice for AJ and advocate for accountability that this campaign victory of compensation was won! The campaign continues to demand the PCG-SF defends their overseas migrant workers by ensuring the J.J. Ugland company conducts a meaningful investigation into AJ’s death and is held accountable.
Join the campaign to stand with workers, on land and at sea, for their rights: tinyurl.com/J4AJ-JOIN
Contact pccseafarers@gmail.com to schedule a ship visit to meet and build solidarity with seafarers
Steering Committee
Are you organizing actions around workers rights and social justice, and seeking broader labor-community support? Join JWJ’s Monthly Steering Committee Meeting to request support for your struggle! We meet over Zoom the first Monday of the month from 5:30-7pm.
Click Here to send an email to Sarah for information on how to join!
Portland Rising
Portland Rising is a committee that hosts discussions, panels, film screenings and other educational events about the importance of unions, and to draw connections between seemingly different campaigns based on the understanding that all our struggles are related.
Check out our on-line Portland Labor History Tour to learn more about the history of labor struggles in our city; our Why Unions Matter Library to read about issues that matter to working people, including short timely discussions that evaluate past and present organizing strategies; and our Labor Movies Library which includes links to labor movies that can be watched for free or low cost.
Portland Rising also helps plan and host the Portland Workers’ Assembly, a discussion series for worker-centered political education, organized in collaboration with Portland Jobs with Justice. New sessions are in the works—stay tuned.
The JWJ Health Care Committee works to promote healthcare as a human right at the local, state, and national level, to defend union health plans, and to fight for fair, equitable and comprehensive health care that covers everyone and is paid for with public funds. Get in touch with Health Care Committee Chair, Betsy Zucker, for information on the next meeting and to join the Committee’s email list: betsyzucker@gmail.com.
Some Additional Items of Interest:
Health Care Workers for Palestine – PDX mailing list here or follow on Instagram
If you are a health care worker, sign this petition (“Not Another Child/Not Another Hospital”
Faith Labor Committee
The Faith Labor Committee is made up of labor and faith activists and leaders who come together to build sustained relationships between the labor community, and individuals and congregations in the faith community. Based on these relationships, the committee works to develop and implement outreach strategies to facilitate the faith community showing up in support of the struggles of working people in our city. Walk with us as we continue the work of advocating for justice and fairness in the workplace! If you are a worker in struggle, we’d love to invite you for solidarity!
Portland Jobs with Justice has long history of international solidarity work.
JWJ members are involved in many global solidarity efforts, taking local action on issues affecting the global working class. Recently, that has looked like organizing local corporate pressure actions in support of global garment workers, fostering international solidarity among rank/file workers and JWJ members, and joining local human rights groups educational events and collective actions. (Pictured:Justice for AJ Press Conference & Community Event. Sign the petition to demand justice for AJ and all seafarers.)
Email the Pacific Coast Coalition for Seafarers & express your interest in attending ship visits to support migrant seafarers docked in Portland: pccseafarers@gmail.com.
To plug into the Deportation Defense Coalition, get in touch with romeo@pcasc.net
Climate Jobs Committee
The Climate Jobs Committee works at the intersections of the labor and climate justice movements. Climate Jobs has continued to advocate for and champion the Portland Clean Energy Fund and to connect union members to its benefits. Climate Jobs continues to advocate for legislation to protect workers and is dedicated to meaningful climate action, including mobilizing with allied organizations to demand the City uphold it’s commitment to phase out fossil fuel use and expansion.
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to send an email to the Climate Jobs chairperson to join the email list and for information to join the next meeting!
Portland Jobs with Justice is a coalition of over 100 labor, faith, community and student organizations and individual activists taking action for workers rights and economic justice, especially with those most marginalized by our economic system such as people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ. More…
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Upcoming Events
Starbucks Strike - Pioneer Courthouse Sq picket December 30, 2025 at 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
STARBUCKS STRIKE - WEEK SEVEN (SBWU)Build the Boycott! Join the picket line! For Living Wages, Staffing, Dignity & Respect!Get your union siblings, neighbors, family & friends to the picket linesLet's shut down this scabbed-up shop!Tues. & Wed. Dec. 30 & 31, 8am - 1pmPioneer Courthouse Square, 720 SW Broadway
Starbucks Strike - Pioneer Courthouse Sq Picket December 31, 2025 at 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
STARBUCKS STRIKE - WEEK SEVEN (SBWU)Build the Boycott! Join the picket line! For Living Wages, Staffing, Dignity & Respect!Get your union siblings, neighbors, family & friends to the picket linesLet's shut down this scabbed-up shop!Tues. & Wed. Dec. 30 & 31, 8am - 1pmPioneer Courthouse Square, 720 SW Broadway
Starbucks Strike - Pioneer Courthouse Sq picket December 30, 2025 at 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
STARBUCKS STRIKE - WEEK SEVEN (SBWU)Build the Boycott! Join the picket line! For Living Wages, Staffing, Dignity & Respect!Get your union siblings, neighbors, family & friends to the picket linesLet's shut down this scabbed-up shop!Tues. & Wed. Dec. 30 & 31, 8am - 1pmPioneer Courthouse Square, 720 SW Broadway
Starbucks Strike - Pioneer Courthouse Sq Picket December 31, 2025 at 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
STARBUCKS STRIKE - WEEK SEVEN (SBWU)Build the Boycott! Join the picket line! For Living Wages, Staffing, Dignity & Respect!Get your union siblings, neighbors, family & friends to the picket linesLet's shut down this scabbed-up shop!Tues. & Wed. Dec. 30 & 31, 8am - 1pmPioneer Courthouse Square, 720 SW Broadway
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The Climate Jobs Committee works at the intersections of the labor and climate justice movements. Climate Jobs has continued to advocate for and champion the Portland Clean Energy Fund and to connect union members to its benefits. Climate Jobs continues to advocate for legislation to protect workers and is dedicated to meaningful climate action, including mobilizing with allied organizations to demand the City uphold it’s commitment to phase out fossil fuel use and expansion.
