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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Laborers Local 296
In Memoriam
Steven Magnett, 1946-2024
A former Laborers Local 296 business manager, he helped build Portland in more than 30 years as a member of the union.
In Memoriam
Aida Aranda, 1962-2023
Training center director Aida Aranda, who died Feb. 27, was a proud Laborer and a dedicated advocate for apprenticeship.
Union democracy
Introducing Laborers Local 737
Laborers Locals 296, 320, and 121 merge to make Local 737
Jobs
Vigor christens new drydock at Portland’s Swan Island shipyard
The 960-foot Chinese-built vessel is the largest floating drydock in North America
Collective bargaining
Home Forward becomes first local body to guarantee $15-an-hour minimum wage
The wage floor means raises for the 33 least-paid employee at the public housing agency
Union democracy
Jack Roy follows Ken Morgan as head of Laborers Local 296
The 900-member local represents construction and shipyard laborers
Building our communities
Teach a kid to fish …
Union volunteers are a big part of the annual Klineline Kids Fish-In in Vancouver, Washington
Building our communities
Laborers 296 gun raffle nets big cash for union charities
A Remington semi-automatic netted $1,315 each for conservation and hardship aid.
Green Jobs
Union-label green jobs — in your attic — for no money down
Clean Energy Works Oregon eliminates upfront costs for homeowners and pays workers a living wage.
Union Organizing
BrucePac’s immigrant workforce says no to union
Three years after a union campaign began at BrucePac, vote is more than 3-to-1 against unionizing
Green Jobs
Laborers sign two home energy contractors
Retrofitters Abacus and Faison commit to being "high road" employers
Union democracy
Morgan re-elected to third term as business manager of Laborers 296
Local 296 represents laborers in construction, at the shipyards, heavy and highway and elsewhere.
Workers Rights
Fired BrucePac workers reinstated
BrucePac, a Willamette Valley cooked meat processor, has offered reinstatement and back pay to three of the 17 union supporters it fired in June 2009.
Workers Rights
Fired BrucePac workers reinstated
BrucePac has offered reinstatement and back pay to three of the 17 union supporters it fired in June 2009.
Workers Rights
Oregon’s Worker Freedom Act survives court challenge
Oregon’s Worker Freedom Act has survived its first court challenge. In a May 6 ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman dismissed a lawsuit...
Union Organizing
NLRB rules BrucePac firings broke federal labor law
BrucePac broke labor law when it fired workers for supporting a union campaign, says a federal judge.
Workers Rights
Laborers union campaign at BrucePac becomes test case
By DON McINTOSH, Associate Editor
Two business groups, Associated Oregon Industries (AOI) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have chosen a union campaign at...
Workers Rights
BrucePac faces NLRB charges in mass firing of pro-union workers
Cooked meat producer BrucePac fired at least 17 union supporters just weeks into a union campaign.
