Northwest Labor Press

Presents from Partners

Dec 14, 2022

The annual charity drive is a way to make holidays a little brighter for union families that find themselves in hardship.

Massive graduate worker strike shuts down UC system

Dec 14, 2022

The University of California work stoppage is the biggest U.S. strike of 2022, and also the biggest higher education strike in U.S. history.

Labor commisioner picks deputy straight out of the house of labor

Dec 14, 2022

Oregon AFL-CIO political and legislative director Jessica Giannettino Villatoro will serve as deputy to incoming BOLI Commissioner Christina Stephenson.

New leader sworn in at Oregon AFL-CIO

Dec 14, 2022

Aida Aranda was unopposed for secretary-treasurer at the Dec. 8 meeting of the union federation’s Executive Board.

A new ambassador for labor in Southwest Washington

Dec 14, 2022

Shaun Gundert, a high school science teacher and member of Evergreen Education Association, was elected as SWWACLC president.

Sweatshop protest comes to Adidas

Dec 14, 2022

Led by Kalpona Akter, president of the Bangladeshi Garment and Industrial Worker Federation, about half the participants were from Machinists Lodge 1005.

Railroaded

Dec 14, 2022

Now derailed, the possible strike by 12 rail unions representing 125,000 workers would have been historic.

2022: The year of the worker?

Dec 14, 2022

This year has seen working people and their unions more central to the mainstream national narrative than in quite some time.

Biden: Congress should impose rail contract

Nov 30, 2022

To win paid sick days, union rail workers are ready for a nationwide strike. But Biden wants Congress to force them to accept a contract they rejected.

What do airport workers want? Raises that beat inflation

Nov 30, 2022

Portland International Airport workers represented by IBEW Local 48 and Laborers Local 483 are tired of working without raises.