March 7, 2025 - NW Labor Press

President Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary, a former Oregon Congresswoman, won’t push a minimum wage increase either.

Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees is hitting workers who fight forest fires and maintain the power grid.

John Hanner wants lawmakers to know that photo radar in highway work zones could avert deaths and injuries — like the one he suffered.

Funding the Bureau of Labor and Industries is Oregon labor‘s top priority in the legislature this year. Will lawmakers deliver?

Measure 119, sponsored by UFCW Local 555, passed in November with the support of 57% of voters.

Oregon's attorney general will defend the governor’s executive order, which directs state agencies to use project labor agreements.

Major work stoppages were down in 2024, according the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, but still more than any year between 2001 and 2018.

Only two in a thousand U.S. workers took part in a strike last year. We asked readers who’ve experienced a strike to tell their stories.

The Catholic health chain outsourced diagnostic lab operations and leased their workplace to a giant for-profit company known as LabCorp.

NXT wants to spend $2.5 billion to construct a plant at the Port Westward Industrial Park in Clatskanie, Oregon.

The new deal, approved by 95%, puts the 7,000 workers ahead of inflation and returns Alaska to its former status as top-paid in the industry.

Providence dug in, but in the end made concessions on wages and staffing levels to end the biggest healthcare strike in Oregon history.

About 93% supported ratifying the contract, which provides annual inflation-based raises plus overall increases totaling 3% over three years.

The workers are represented by OPEIU Local 11 and help Clark County residents access emergency shelters and permanent housing.

The District Council of Trade Unions ratified a new contract with the City of Portland by a relatively slim margin, with just 57% in support.

It was the third time since 2021 that a bill to make Montana a “right-to-work” state has failed in the state legislature.

Leaders of seven labor organizations visited Portland City Councilors and Mayor Keith Wilson’s offices to discuss how to avoid layoffs.

The strike was accompanied by demonstrations in more than 300 cities, including one in the capital of Athens with a crowd of 180,000.

The entertainment union SAG/AFTRA held its annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Feb. 23, broadcast live on Netflix.