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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LERC
Labor History
Beyond ‘Wages, Benefits and Working Conditions’
In post-war St. Louis, two visionary Teamsters put their union in service of the community.
People
New UO LERC instructor: Sarah Laslett
Laslett most recently directed the Washington State Labor Education and Research Center.
Culture
Summer Institute for Women comes to Portland
This year’s Institute drew 150 attendees, including about 60 from Canada
Workers Rights
Common Sense Economics introduced at Labor Law Conference
The program illustrates why today’s economy isn’t working for working people.
Analysis
UP IS DOWN
How the Oregonian stretched facts to argue that a massive minimum wage increase wouldn’t help workers
In Memoriam
Jim Gallagher, 1934-2014
Gallagher worked in public sector unions and retired from UO LERC in 1992.
People
New LERC instructor brings an organizer’s perspective
Raahi Reddy was hired to replace longtime labor educator Marcus Widenor, who retired.
In Memoriam
Bill Fritz, 1945-2013
A labor educator, he headed the Portland office of UO's Labor Education and Research Center
Politics
Agencies near and dear to labor mostly spared cuts by Legislature
Among state agencies of concern to labor - BOLI, LERC, ERB - the scenario is belt-tightening but no disabling cuts.
Jobs
LERC professor says job training not solution to unemployment
Union membership plays bigger role in wage rates than education.
