Northwest Labor Press

Major Senate Breakthrough

Aug 17, 2022

A greatly scaled down Build Back Better bill will still spur climate jobs, cut drug prices, and limit corporate tax avoidance.

Machinists reach out to veterans in need

Aug 17, 2022

Machinists hosted a barbecue at a transitional housing village for veterans in a growing partnership between the union and nonprofit Do Good Multnomah.

Toxic Work Environment

Aug 17, 2022

You name it, AFSCME-represented hazardous waste workers handle it. The job combines science, a strong stomach and a whole lot of caution.

Why the Oaks Park Labor Day picnic is no more

Aug 17, 2022

Event organizers say the long-running annual picnic was killed off by the park’s own management, which implemented a slew of recent changes.

Voodoo Doughnut workers relaunch union effort

Aug 17, 2022

Doughnut Workers United has begun a second campaign to organize downtown Portland’s Voodoo Doughnut store.

Shipyard painters go union

Aug 17, 2022

A dozen workers who paint vessels on Swan Island in Portland have unionized, increasing the union density at the Vigor Industrial shipyard.

Bend brewpub will stay nonunion

Aug 17, 2022

Workers at Crux Fermentation Project voted 10-2 against unionizing with an independent labor organization, in ballots counted Aug. 4.

Fourth Portland-area New Seasons launches union

Aug 17, 2022

Workers at a New Seasons Market in Northwest Portland are organizing with an independent labor organization.

Strikes shut down all but one Eugene Starbucks

Aug 17, 2022

Within a week, a strike grew from one to seven Starbucks locations in Eugene, Oregon. That meant every union store in the city was on strike.

Primary propels SW Washington labor candidates on to November

Aug 17, 2022

Every labor-backed candidate in SW Washington’s Aug. 2 primary will advance to the general election, and two ballot measures were approved.