SOJWJ is looking for a food truck. For years, the SOJWJ has been serving the peace meals, using Ashland’s Pioneer Hall and other locations in Lithia Park — they want to keep doing so but also recognize there are some limitations. Using a food truck is the best option. A food truck helps solve several […]
Category: Actions
SOJWJ 2022 Report
We are grateful for another year and the opportunity to say thank you for taking action and demanding more for working families and other marginalized communities in southern Oregon. As we closed out 2022, we reflected on what this work means and what keeps Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice growing and focused on building power […]
1,400 Frontline Nurses to Vote to Authorize Strikes at Providence Portland, Seaside
1,400 Frontline Nurses to Vote to Authorize Strikes at Providence Portland, Seaside (Photo) – 05/23/23 (Portland, OR) – After eight months of contentious negotiations and limited response from Providence management, frontline nurses at Providence Portland and Providence Seaside are launching strike authorization votes. Providence Portland’s vote will open at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, May 24 and Providence […]
ONA NURSES AT PROV. MILWAUKIE AND PROV. WILLAMETTE FALLS VOTE TO STRIKE
(Portland, OR) – In two historic elections to protect patient safety, frontline nurses at Providence Milwaukie Hospital in Milwaukie and Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center in Oregon City voted nearly unanimously to authorize strikes against Providence–one of Oregon’s largest and most profitable health systems. They join nurses at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland […]
OPB: Nurses at St. Charles Hospital in Bend vote to authorize strike
The union representing nurses at St. Charles Health System in Bend announced on Monday that they have authorized a strike, possibly setting up the hospital’s first nurses’ strike in more than 40 years. Nurses at the hospital — the largest employer in Central Oregon — are preparing for a strike due to what they say […]
KSKQ Wednesday Morning Show: Rogue River Incident
On the morning show for May 24, 2023 we talk about a recent harassment of Rogue River family for their flying of a rainbow flag.Starts at 24:00 minute mark. https://archive.org/details/whats-up-weds-202305240800
We the People: Medford Pride Festival
On We the People for May 24, we talk with organizers of Medford’s Pride 2023 festival. https://archive.org/details/we-the-people-202305240900
We the people: The Hawthorne Park daily Potluck
Nicole Herzmark and Joshua Hedge were on this week’s We the People — they discussed the Hawthorne Park Daily Potluck meals, helping those who are homeless and facing food insecurity, as well as how others can help. https://archive.org/details/we-the-people-202305170900
Ashland Starbucks workers announce the chain’s first union organizing drive in Southern Oregon
By Roman Battaglia (Jefferson Public Radio) March 7, 2023 6 a.m. Workers at the Starbucks coffee shop in Ashland have announced their intent to unionize. They’re the first store in Southern Oregon to do so.Workers at Starbucks’ Ashland store are looking to join the Starbucks Workers United union to advocate for more staffing and better pay. Organizers […]
RRMC employees unionizing
HEALTHCARE WORKERS UNIONIZING AT ASANTE ROGUE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN MEDFORDNews Release from Oregon Nurses Assn.April 21st, 2023 Medford, Ore. – More than 250 healthcare technical workers at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford, Oregon filed for union recognition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The group, comprised of radiologic technologists, licensed practical […]