On December 23, 2025, your bargaining unit leaders, backed by your elected officers, OFNHP staff, and our international union’s Director of Collective Bargaining, reached local Tentative Agreements (TAs) for the last five remaining OFNHP bargaining units.

I am proud of how these leaders and bargaining teams came together to deliver inclusive agreements, agreements where every OFNHP bargaining unit was seen, and where every unit made gains.

While most bargaining happened at separate tables (outside of our local Common Issues Table), we stayed in close coordination the entire time. We relied on

Educators and nurses are professionals. Their work is some of the most sacred work people can do, and their professional judgment should be respected. But this administration wants to undermine these workers’ stature in society to pay for the tax cuts the rich got this summer in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”—the same bill that cut healthcare and caused the skyrocketing Affordable Care Act premiums this December.

Here’s the deal: A proposal by Education Secretary Linda McMahon is now circulating that would eliminate the “professional” status for advanced degrees for nurses, physician assistants

We are collaborating with our coalition partner Portland Jobs With Justice to revive their Workers’ Rights Board to hear from Labcorp workers, providers, and experts about how conditions inside this for-profit lab are impacting patient care — and why these workers are fighting for their first contract. Join us Thursday, Dec 11 at 6pm! RSVP Here.

Background: Labcorp is a for-profit corporation that buys and runs hospital labs. They understaff them and underpay their employees with negative consequences for patient care. This is happening at multiple hospitals around Portland where Labcorp