Northwest Labor Press

Over 600 ambulance crew members are voting on a a tentative agreement that brings more predictable schedules, more paid time off and raises.

Worker safety

Student behavior – including assaults – are a factor in record-high classroom aide and support staff turnover.

Labor’s Community Service Agency executive director Eryn Byram is leaving for a job leading the Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity.

Clif Davis, former IBEW Local 48 business manager who held a business development position with IBEW District 9, retired in April.

Sarah Wofford is the new top officer at the Oregon School Employees Association, replacing former president Lisa Gourley.

AFSCME Local 2619 member Christy O’Neill resigned as secretary-treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO at the Sept. 7 meeting of its executive board.

The only way for Oregon to continue to be a national leader for workers’ rights is by electing Tina Kotek this November.

In honor of Labor Day, the Labor Press commissioned artist Jim Kettner to produce a graphic look at labor’s anthem, and the man who wrote it.

105 years ago, well before any law recognized union rights, a paper mill strike spread like a match to paper across Oregon and Washington.

Eight months after Portland home goods maker Schoolhouse was sold to a new owner, its workers are ready for a union.