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.
Buying Union
Union printers merge: Morel Ink acquires NuWay Printing
Union-endorsed political campaigns make up a sizable chunk of Morel and NuWay clients, so the union label is a big deal.
Union cannabis comes to Oregon
UFCW represents workers at the new Salem location of Seattle-based cannabis retail chain Have a Heart.
Union Cab quietly goes non-union
Despite claims on its web site, the cooperative taxi company is no longer union-affiliated.
No more ‘American Idle’?
UAW is calling on Americans to buy American. And sing about it.
Union-made gift ideas
Buying any gifts this holiday season? If you buy union, you help keep good jobs in the community, and vote with your dollars for enterprises that pay your fellow workers a living wage with benefits.
Outside a Portland Walmart: The Nabisco Boycott Day of Action
With actions outside 100 stores nationwide, the union boycott against Mexican-made Nabisco products isn't going away any time soon.
Morel Ink: Owners change, union remains
Longtime owners Bill Dickey and Matt Witham sold the business to longtime employees.
Mexican-made Nabisco boycott continues, and so does union standoff
Laid-off workers tour college campuses and protest at the annual shareholders meeting.
Need some electrical work done? Here’s $200 to help you get it done with a union professional
As part of a campaign to win back residential work, IBEW Local 48 is ready to contribute $200 toward your next home electrical project.
Is that what they call the Portland Spirit?
A riverboat owner’s rant against recent pro-worker laws turns away a union convention host.
Staples boycott ends with union win
The National Labor Relations Board ordered the US Postal Service to stop privatizing union members' work.
How to buy union this holiday season
Buying union means voting with your dollars for enterprises that pay your fellow workers a living wage with benefits.
Washington farmworkers union ends boycott of Driscolls, Sakuma
Sakuma Brothers agreed to recognize and bargain with a farmworkers union.
How to fly union
Seven airlines account for 80% of miles flown. Want to guess which ones are union?
Bakers Local 114 closes Wells Fargo account for its link to an anti-union group
For business leaders, actions sometimes have consequences.
Laid-off Nabisco workers travel the country to boycott Mexican-made Oreos
In Portland, a laid-off Chicago worker delivers a message: The fight is bigger than Mondelēz
Laid-off Nabisco workers push Mexican Oreo boycott
Boycott education teams of laid-off workers will travel the country starting in the Chicago area.
Farmworker unions spread word about boycott of Driscoll’s
Unions in Washington and Baja Mexico make common cause
How to buy union this holiday season
Is union-made the ultimate hard-to-find gift? Maybe, but we've come up with a few ideas.
Furor over Mexican Oreos, but no union boycott
Stop eating Oreo cookies? Not so fast, says the Bakers Union.
