Northwest Labor Press

All told SWWACLC represents 17,000 members of 51 affiliated local unions in Clark, Skamania, and west Klickitat counties.

Under Jennifer Abruzzo, the “new sheriff in town,” Amazon, Starbucks and others have learned that powerful companies are not above the law.

As much as we all want to move on, to put the pandemic behind us, now is not the time to relent. We must push on.

Building trades leaders were steamed when Metro commissioner Mary Nolan voted “no” on funding for a bridge over the Columbia River.

UFCW Local 555 calls the new contract at Fred Meyer and QFC its best contract ever. Over 3 years, wages will rise $3 an hour.

It’s one of the most far-reaching settlements to date after Amazon was found guilty of trampling workers’ rights to unionize.

More salaried Washington workers just got the right to overtime too. And Oregon minimum wage goes up July 1.

Support from their unions, and anti-harassment policies, could make a difference, says the biggest-ever survey of women in construction.

Gordon Lafer says the federal government should put workers’ rights conditions on the coming billions in subsidy.

Sheet Metal Local 16 organizer Darrin Boyce says the company owner’s daughter was furious: The union was giving out Christmas stockings!