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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Associated General Contractors sues Tina Kotek
Oregon's attorney general will defend the governor’s executive order, which directs state agencies to use project labor agreements.
Jobs
Oregon Supreme Court hears AGC suit against project labor agreements
The lawsuit is one of a handful around the country that are challenging agreements that public agencies make with construction unions.
Collective bargaining
Laborers rise $9.25/hr in new agreements
Traffic flaggers — who have one of the most dangerous jobs — will get even bigger raises, starting with an immediate raise of $8 an hour.
Jobs
Battle breaks out between labor and AGC
It took two years and a state law for building trades unions to bargain a deal with ODOT. Now a contractor group wants to blow it up.
Oregon
At the Oregon Legislature: Labor’s agenda inches forward
Will the Oregon Legislature ban anti-union ‘right-to-work’ ordinances?
Union democracy
Carpenters Local 156, formed in a 2011 merger, splits into two
Local 156 is replaced with newly formed Locals 1503 and 271.
