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Events & Actions
Ongoing, 7am-5pm: Largest Healthcare Strike in Oregon History! Join a Picket Line!
Nearly 5,000 healthcare professionals at the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) are calling on Providence Health & Services to return to the bargaining table and put their patients before profits by offering a fair contract to frontline caregivers. Nurses, doctors, physician associates, certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, clinical staff, and other healthcare professionals are striking Providence beginning Jan. 10.
ONA members are holding this historic and courageous strike because of Providence’s unfair labor practices, dangerously understaffed hospitals, the need for more time with patients, affordable employee healthcare, and competitive wages and benefits to help recruit and retain more caregivers.
Join the picket lines and stand in solidarity with healthcare workers fighting for better care for their patients and a stronger future for caregivers!
Sign up to join a picket, sign the petition to Providence, and support the strike fund here!
Sign the solidarity pledge, donate to the strike fund, and sign up to volunteer here.
Pledge to Support PSU Professors When They 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. Impasse could come as soon as Thursday.
Sign the pledge here, and support the strike fund here.
Saturday, Feb. 1, 9am-1pm: Fair Shot For All 2025 Activist Summit
Join Fair Shot on Saturday, February 1st, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM for a day of crucial discussions and action around Oregon’s future. We’ll dive into the 2025 Fair Shot Legislative Agenda, focusing on critical issues impacting Oregonians, including immigrant justice, keeping Oregonians housed, strengthening behavioral healthcare, and empowering essential workers.
Location: Portland Community College, SE Campus, 2305 SE 82nd
Support the Starbucks Workers Union in Three Ways:
Sign the No Contract, No Coffee Pledge!
Feb. 8 & 9: Solidarity Phonebank!
Feb. 3-9: Canvass stores in Portland!
Fresh off the largest-ever strike in Starbucks’ history, SBWU baristas are united. We’re calling Starbucks out for failing to support the baristas who are central to the company’s turnaround. Starbucks backtracked on the path forward, and offered no raises or benefits increases specifically for union baristas in the first year of the contract. They knew that an offer that low wouldn’t lead to ratified contracts. They failed to meet their own deadline for a foundational framework by the end of 2024. Support the workers in their struggle!
Thursdays, Jan. 30, Feb. 6 & Feb. 13: Secrets of a Successful Organizer Labor Notes Training
You’ve been talking to your co-workers, and they say they feel overworked, underpaid, and increasingly pressured by productivity quotas and the ever present threat of discipline. How do you fight for better?
Secrets of a Successful Organizer is Labor Notes’ core organizing training, in three sessions full of lively participatory exercises. We welcome first-timers and repeat attendees looking to sharpen their skills.
These workshops are based on our widely acclaimed book Secrets of a Successful Organizer. These trainings will be held via Zoom.
Saturday, Feb. 1, 9am-5pm: Oregon AFL-CIO Strike School
Workers in Oregon are making bold moves, stepping up to go on strike or delivering credible strike threats to win the contracts, dignity, and respect we all deserve on the job. Across the country and right here at home, workers are showing collective strength in ways we haven’t seen in decades—and it’s paying off with historic wins across a variety of industries. Anyone who’s ever stood on a picket line knows this: striking involves immense sacrifice, risk, and potential consequences. Strikes can exert enormous pressure on employers, but a poorly planned strike can backfire. In fact, some of the most effective “strikes” are the ones that never need to happen.
That’s why, on Saturday, February 1, 2025, the Oregon AFL-CIO is hosting the second annual Oregon Labor Strike School. Union leaders, activists, and bargaining team members from across the state will gather to learn how to craft strategies that make credible strike threats powerful and effective. Participants will leave with practical tools for running strong shop floor campaigns that turn up the heat at the bargaining table and drive employers toward signing fair contracts.
Registration is $75.
Location: Oregon Labor Center, 3645 SE 32nd Ave
Ongoing: Boycott New Seasons
On the day prior to Thanksgiving, over 1000 workers across 11 union New Seasons stores went on strike over unfair labor practices. Keep supporting the workers struggle by shopping somewhere else until workers get the fair contract they deserve!
Wednesday, Feb. 5, 6:30-8:30pm: Working Folks Win! Recruiting Awesome Candidates
As we all begin to gear up for 2025 and the longer fight we have ahead of us, one of the most critical ways in which we build power for and with the multi-racial working class is running campaigns that win with working class candidates and skilled campaign staff.
Has the thought crossed your mind to run for office? Do you know someone who you would love to vote for one day? If so, join Working Families Party for Working Folks Win! a two-part virtual training series to cover the basics of running for office, how to scout out and support potential candidates for campaigns, and the ways that WFP does this work brick-by-brick, election-to-election.
Saturday, Feb. 8, 10:15am-12:15pm: Building Indivisible – East Portland District 1
Join us! We’re Indivisible East Portland District 1. We’re building grassroots people power focused right here in our community.
Location: Holgate Library, 7905 SE Holgate Blvd
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 6-8:30pm: Walking Through Portland with a Panther: The Life of Mr. Kent Ford.
Join us for the debut of Walking Through Portland with a Panther: The Life of Mr. Kent Ford. All Power! — the filmed premiere of a new solo play that celebrates the legacy of Mr. Kent Ford, co-founder of Portland’s chapter of the 1960s–era Black empowerment organization, the Black Panther Party. This newly commissioned solo play incorporates archival footage and storytelling to understand the legacy of local resistance, rediscover lost neighborhoods where the Panthers used to patrol, and learn the intimate makings of unsung leaders of protest and revolution.
Location: Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave
Friday, Feb. 14, 12-2pm: Protecting our Immigrant Neighbors
Join the Deportation Defense Coalition to build robust deportation defense through community solidarity!
The incoming administration is poised to follow through on its threats of “shock and awe” raids. Here are some resources for people returning to Mexico, Honduras, el Salvador and Guatemala. Please share.
Location: PCC Cascade, 705 N Killingsworth St
If you think you see ICE and/or anyone you know is detained, call the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition hotline: 1-888-622-1510. It’s answered every day until about 8pm!
Saturday, Feb. 15, 11am-5pm: DPO Candidate Bootcamp Zoom Training
The 2025 Democratic Party of Oregon Local Elections Project Candidate Bootcamp Training is a live Zoom training for Democrats interested in running for local offices. Whether you are ready to file to run, are considering running in the future, or have run campaigns in the past, this training will give you the tools and resources you need to be an effective candidate. This training is also open to candidate campaign support volunteers and staff.
Thursday, Feb. 20, Tabling at 5:30 & Panel at 6:30pm: Rumble on the River Forum #20: Rumble Run-Down
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
March for Bernie Rally, January 23, 2016