Northwest Labor Press

Nearly two years after the first Starbucks store unionized, not one Starbucks location has a first union contract.

Dentists at the county clinics treat some of the area’s poorest residents: Medicaid enrollees, uninsured, and homeless.

Because of toxins in burning buildings, cancer deaths for firefighters are considered to be deaths in the line of duty.

PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center declared impasse and walked away from contract negotiations with 14 lab professionals on July 31.

The first Monday of September is labor’s holiday, celebrated by union members, families, and allies. Here’s a local list of union picnics.

Powell’s workers say is the company is refusing to bargain in good faith and ask the public not to shop there in-store or online that day.

Washington’s child welfare workers are at high risk for physical assault and burnout, and the program’s leader is to blame, says WFSE.

Over the last few years Oregon has led the nation with the most legislative walkouts and the second-longest walkout in American history.

Local 452’s Memory Makers program is in its 21st year. It gives medically fragile children and their families an outing to the county fair.

Contract ratification began Aug. 3 and will run through Aug. 22, at which point the results will be announced.