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.
Peter Wong
Oregon/Washington
Unemployment benefits for strikers?
Bills to give striking workers the right to unemployment benefits are moving forward in Oregon and Washington.
Worker safety
To protect highway workers, lawmakers look to speed cameras
John Hanner wants lawmakers to know that photo radar in highway work zones could avert deaths and injuries — like the one he suffered.
Oregon
Unions and business agree: Labor bureau is underfunded
Funding the Bureau of Labor and Industries is Oregon labor‘s top priority in the legislature this year. Will lawmakers deliver?
