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.
Jobs
Women in Trades Career Fair
Over 2,000 women and teenagers learned about careers in construction at the annual fair.
Portland’s new mass transit bridge is union-built
Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People
Union pension funds create union jobs in Portland
AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust is investing in a $43.2 million mixed-use residential building
Union investment brings new development, jobs to Portland
The $43.2 million six-story apartment complex will be built 100 percent union
Anti- high-capacity transit measure passes in Tigard
Every year from now on, Tigard must send a letter opposed to any rail or bus project that displaces roads
Parkrose School Board nixes plan to contract out school buses
An energetic five-month campaign by OSEA saves school bus driver jobs
After change of heart, Bernard lets union-represented AMR keep Clackamas County ambulance contract
Teamsters think it was Bernard who put the existing contract out for competition.
OSEA battles Parkrose plan to outsource school bus service
The school board will vote Feb. 24 on whether to contract out.
Kitzhaber sets March deadline to decide future of I-5 bridge
Building trades council is urging support for bridge.
Port of Portland drops plan to develop West Hayden Island
Union leaders angered over loss of industrial land
Machinists to vote on second Boeing offer
The Puget Sound Machinists District is urging members to reject the concessionary offer
Seven protesters arrested at Springfield postal facility
The mail processing plant is slated for closure
OFNHP protests elimination of perio-hygienist classification
The 17 workers in that classification do the same work, for less pay
Convention Center hotel closer to breaking ground
Hyatt would be neutral toward hotel workers unionizing.
Unions turn out to support coal export terminal in Longview
At a public hearing, 2,000 attend: unionists for the jobs, and environmentalists against the coal
Columbia River Crossing showing signs of life
Officials are still looking into the financially viability of an “Oregon only” project.
Coalition calls for scaled-down phased-in I-5 bridge over the Columbia
Three pages worth of names sign a letter calling for "phased option"
Planned occupation of NW Portland’s main post office thwarted
Department of Homeland Security police stood in a post office entrance.
All signs point to a union-built convention center hotel
Metro's "statement of principles" asks the developer to use union workers
Columbia River Crossing: Dead in the water
The I-5 bridge project, along with promised construction jobs, ran aground in the Washington Senate.
