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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Communications Workers Local 7901
Oregon
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Two state senate Dems with long ties to labor will leave office when their terms expire this year
Collective bargaining
Portland’s First Unitarian signs first union contract
The two year deal raises wages to $15 an hour.
Workers Rights
OSPIRG fundraiser fires pro-union workers
Workers at Fund for the Public Interest’s Portland call center voted in October to unionize.
Union Organizing
Free Geek employees vote to join Portland CWA Local 7901
A group of 19 workers at local non-profit Free Geek have unionized with Communications Workers of America. Free Geek prides itself on an unusual form of collective management by democratic consensus. But as the group grew, a sub-caste developed — of lower-paid employees who weren’t in the collective.
