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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Musicians Local 99
Jobs
Fighting for Keller jobs
Members of entertainment unions tell Portland City Council a closure for renovation could devastate arts jobs.Â
Collective bargaining
Union arts employers pinched by rising rents, falling support
Oregon Symphony is paying 50% more for the Schnitzer, and arts tax funds are being diverted to smaller groups.
Union Organizing
Ethos Music Center to vote on unionizing
Musicians Local 99 seeks to represent 34 teachers and staff at the center, a non-profit children's music school in North Portland.
Collective bargaining
Oregon Symphony raises wages in new contract
The three-year contract with Musicians Local 99 raises wages 6% in year one and 3.5% in years two and three.
Buying Union
Union-made gift ideas
Buying any gifts this holiday season? If you buy union, you help keep good jobs in the community, and vote with your dollars for enterprises that pay your fellow workers a living wage with benefits.
Culture
Unions are wall-to-wall at Keller Auditorium
With the recent unionization of dancers at the Oregon Ballet Theatre, their shows are now executed by an all-union workforce.
Health Care
Union musicians back Inner City Blues Festival for single payer
For Norman “Boogie Cat” Sylvester, universal health care is personal.
