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
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.
National
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.
Union democracy
ILWU leaves AFL-CIO
The longshore union cited jurisdictional disputes as part of the reason.
Worker safety
White House releases OSHA rule on silica, after two-year delay
If implemented, the proposed OSHA rule would protect 2 million exposed workers.
Comment
The union movement’s survival requires it to change
The history of the labor movement is full of the corpses of failed organizations.
Union democracy
Washington AFL-CIO convention: ‘Labor can’t do it alone’
Resolution calls for continued fight for new I-5 bridge with light rail
Union democracy
United Food and Commercial Workers expected to rejoin AFL-CIO in August
UFCW's return would boost AFL-CIO membership by almost 10 percent.
Trade
Secret Pacific Rim trade deal on track to completion
Obama's NAFTA-style treaty with 11 Pacific Rim nations is slated for signing in October
Comment
AFL-CIO will look at changes to labor councils
With a structure set in 1955, many state and local labor councils face problems
Worker safety
Obama Administration quietly smothers rule to protect workers
Silica sickens 3,600 a year, but the White House has halted an OSHA rule 38 years in the making
Union democracy
Don’t rely on politicians, Avakian tells union retirees
Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian was the keynote at Oregon Alliance for Retired Americans convention
National
Oregon AFL-CIO E-Board endorses immigration reform
A national poll shows union member support for immigration reform.
Analysis
Union movement must evolve to speak, advocate, and fight for all workers
The AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles will look at new and old strategies for building a movement.
National
AFL-CIO plans national campaign for immigration reform
Proposal would end “shadow economy” of illegal and exploited workers
In Memoriam
Bill Fitzgerald, 1926-2012
The AFL-CIO field rep helped union campaigns throughout the Northwest.
