Northwest Labor Press

Safeway.com drivers become the first home grocery delivery workers to unionize

Mar 5, 2020

Workers stood strong for their union in the face of union-buster ride-alongs in their trucks.

Union-backed initiatives would punish GOP walkout

Mar 5, 2020

The measures would fine Oregon lawmakers who fail to show up — and disqualify them from running for re-election.

KOIN-TV moves forward with union-busting

Mar 5, 2020

A federal judge is set to hear charges May 19 that Nexstar Media illegally walked away from negotiations with NABET-CWA.

AFL-CIO forum brings Portland City hall contenders to union hall

Mar 5, 2020

Three months before the election, 12 candidates pitched themselves to 180 unionists.

Swan Lake Energy Storage signs project labor agreement

Mar 5, 2020

The $800 million project near Klamath Falls would enable storage of solar and wind energy and would be union-built.

Meet Jeff Gritz, new Laborers district council director

Mar 5, 2020

The Oregon and Southern Idaho District Council of Laborers has a new leader and a new crew.

End of an era: Labor cartoonists say farewell

Mar 4, 2020

Labor cartoonists Mike Konopacki and Gary Huck are closing down their cartoon syndicate.

Telling labor’s story to lawmakers

Mar 4, 2020

For a day, there were more union construction workers than legislators in the State Capitol building.

Oregon’s logger union fighters come alive in a novelistic rejoinder to Ken Kesey’s scab heroes

Mar 4, 2020

The novel’s heroes are a Finnish immigrant family in Astoria in the early 20th century, exploited as fishers and loggers, who become involved with the IWW.

Labor Council endorses Wheeler for mayor on second attempt

Mar 4, 2020

Wheeler faces 14 challengers in the May 19 primary.