Northwest Labor Press is an independent union-supported newspaper founded in 1900. Our print version is mailed twice a month to about 45,000 members of over three dozen local unions in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Our online version has been maintained here since 1997.
Linda Baker
Buying Union
Homeowners, don’t despair: You CAN find union contractors
Quality work – and family-sustaining benefits – set union contractors apart.
People
WHY SHE LEFT
Nurses are burned out and quitting the profession like never before. One psychiatric nurse shares why she quit her job at Unity.
People
Union: How to turn a job into a career
Workers who help homeless addicts can be one mishap away from homelessness themselves. Their union gives hope it can be a longterm calling.
People
The job: Put an end to homelessness
Katie DeSantis was homeless for 20 years. Then she secured stable housing, earned a degree, and began working for homeless service agencies.
Collective bargaining
New CEO at Central City Concern decides to hit reset with union
What if the Portland-based homeless service non-profit thought of Oregon AFSCME as its most important ally?
People
At work, finding homes for the homeless
Formerly homeless herself, AFSCME Local 88 member Salma Azizza today works to get unsheltered people into housing and get the help they need.
Green Jobs
Electric big rigs are now union-made in Portland
Daimler started producing the long-awaited eCascadia this summer, and plans to start deliveries of the all-electric big rig later this year.
Union Organizing
How Starbucks is turning a new generation on to unionism
Starbucks employees in Portland are part of a burgeoning nationwide store-by-store union campaign led by young frontline workers.