Northwest Labor Press

Judge strikes down SeaTac’s $15 minimum wage — for airport workers

Dec 31, 2013

The ballot measure still goes into effect for hotel workers

IBEW Local 48’s Keith Edwards retires after 44-year career

Dec 31, 2013

Edwards, 64, was IBEW’s first black business manager

National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md., will close in April

Dec 31, 2013

Construction debt burdened the school, to which the AFL-CIO has been contributing $5 million a year

Oregon AFL-CIO hires Nafisah Ula to bolster union organizing

Dec 31, 2013

The campaign researcher comes to the state federation from the national AFL-CIO

Working America signing up workers for health insurance

Dec 31, 2013

Enrollees also become members of Working America.

Operating Engineers rejoin Building Trades Department

Dec 31, 2013

Eight years after leaving, Engineers back in AFL-CIO Building Trades Department

The year 2013 in Labor

Dec 31, 2013

For local labor, it was a year of legislative gains, and contract frustrations

Sick leave ordinance will take effect in City of Portland Jan. 1

Dec 18, 2013

Backers plan to push for statewide legislation in 2015.

New round of contract talks at Boeing collapse

Dec 18, 2013

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee criticized union leaders, saying Boeing’s offer should be put to a vote.

IBEW Local 48 volunteers help light up The Grotto Festival of Lights

Dec 18, 2013

A holiday tradition for some members of IBEW Local 48 is volunteering to help wire and power all of the lights — 500,000 of them — at The Grotto’s Festival of Lights. Local 48 members and