Media advisory for
7:30 a.m., Oct. 17, 2025
Contact:Shane Burley, OFNHP
503-875-4228
sburley@ofnhp.org
Andrew Crook, AFT
607-280-6603
acrook@aft.org
PORTLAND, Ore.—AFT President Randi Weingarten, U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Ore., and a Kaiser patient will hold a news conference on Oct. 17 at a picket line of striking Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers to show their strong support for the caregivers.
About 4,000 members of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, an affiliate of AFT, have been on strike since Tuesday.
WHAT:
News conference
WHEN:
7:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 17
WHERE:
Sunnyside Medical Center, 10180 SE Sunnyside Rd., Clackamas, Ore.
WHO:
AFT President Randi Weingarten. (AFT represents 1.8 million members, including nurses and healthcare workers. AFT is the nation’s second-largest nurses’ union.)
U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Ore.
Helen Moss. She and her husband have been Kaiser patients for 33 years. Her husband had surgery at Sunnyside the day before the strike began.
OFNHP President Sarina Roher, RN
The union said the strike would last no longer than 7 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 19.
OFNHP represents about 4,000 healthcare workers in four bargaining units that can strike—two units of registered nurses, laboratory professionals and professional employees (such as social workers, physical therapists, audiologists and cancer counselors). They work at Sunnyside Medical Center east of Portland and Westside Medical Center west of Portland, as well as at ambulatory surgical centers, medical centers and medical clinics along the I-5 corridor from Longview, Wash., to Eugene, Ore.
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