Northwest Labor Press is an independent union-supported newspaper founded in 1900. Our print version is mailed twice a month to about 45,000 members of over three dozen local unions in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Our online version has been maintained here since 1997.
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AFL-CIO
Building our communities
Union movement helps workers become citizens
The national AFL-CIO is funding citizenship clinics in Oregon.
Comment
Free trade — a litmus test for labor
Labor’s endorsements and political contributions aren’t a right. They’re an honor.
Trade
Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader calls AFL-CIO president a ‘bully’
The AFL-CIO has begun campaigning against Democrats who support Fast Track.
Union Organizing
Trumka to Oregon’s labor movement: Organize
American labor's top official says the movement is in transition.
Analysis
CEO pay continues to explode
The average S&P 500 CEO made 373 times as much as the average American worker in 2014.
Trade
Avakian urges Congress to nix TPP trade deal
Panel at AFL-CIO-sponsored event says fast track trade deal is a power grab by large corporations
Worker safety
Federal OSHA’s Silica Neverland
Six years after Obama took office, workers are still waiting for protection from deadly dust.
Trade
Labor ramps up fight against free trade deal
AFL-CIO is freezing all political contributions while the fast track debate is on.
International
U.S. starts first-ever CAFTA enforcement action against Guatemala for labor rights
The UN has documented 30 assassinations of union members in Guatemala since 2008
Politics
A senator for the working class
In his first 6-year term, Jeff Merkley has proven to be one of organized labor’s closest allies
Jobs
Staples boycott grows
Unions boycott Staples after it contracts with USPS to staff mini-post offices in stores.
Worker safety
OSHA silica rule: just a few more months, maybe
Exposed workers are dying, but business groups howl at the expense of prevention
Retirement
Oregon retirees group stays busy, involved in community
Attendees call for expanding Social Security and establishing single payer health care
National
National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md., will close in April
Construction debt burdened the school, to which the AFL-CIO has been contributing $5 million a year
Health Care
Working America signing up workers for health insurance
Enrollees also become members of Working America.
Workers Rights
After years of delay, Obama DOL says home care workers will get minimum wage, overtime
A decades-old exclusion ends for nearly 2 million workers.
Building our communities
Two Oregon schools receive $5,000 AFL-CIO ‘Adopt-A-School’ grants
Grant money will support curriculum on workers’ rights and civil rights.
Comment
A game-changing AFL-CIO convention
We want to transform our union movement into a workers’ movement.
