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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Union Organizing
Reporters go union at Portland Mercury
Index Media owns the Mercury, the Stranger, Bold Type Tickets, and EverOut. Its publications cover news, arts, and culture.
Union Organizing
Newsroom staff at Bend Bulletin and Redmond Spokesman form union
The two publications are owned by EO Media Group, a private family-owned company that runs 15 newspapers and two magazines in Oregon.
Collective bargaining
Reporters ratify contract at Longview Daily News
Their second contract provides a starting wage of $19. That’s a $2 increase from the previously negotiated salary floor.
Jobs
Daily News no longer longer printed daily
Longview's daily newspaper, like most of the 77 owned by Lee Enterprises, is reducing print publication schedule to three days a week.
Collective bargaining
Longview newspaper ratifies first union contract
Hammered out in 10 months, the union's first contract with newspaper owner Lee Enterprises will be up in a year.
Collective bargaining
The Daily News offers 13¢ raise
The Longview newsroom joined the NewsGuild last May. But bargaining with Lee Enterprises—which owns 77 newspapers—isn't going well.
Union Organizing
NewsGuild walks away from The Columbian
HAPPIER DAYS: Reporters and photographers unionized hoping to make working at The Columbian sustainable for the long term, but in bargaining, the company said no to every proposal workers put forward.
Union Organizing
Vancouver’s daily newspaper moves to get rid of its union
After 21 months of supposed negotiations, The Columbian is asking the National Labor Relations Board to hold a new union election.Â
Union Organizing
Longview news reporters go union
Newsroom staff at The Daily News in Longview, Washington voted 6-0 to unionize with the NewsGuild in mail ballots counted May 14.
Culture
Union logos get a little love
A new Twitter account dedicated to sharing union logos has quickly developed a fan base in the union Twitter world.
Union Organizing
Wave of unionization sweeps through Washington newspapers
Five Washington newspapers have unionized recently, the latest in a nationwide surge among print and online journalists under way since 2015.
Union Organizing
Journalists at The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver vote overwhelmingly to unionize
The union vote comes as part of an extraordinary wave of unionization in print and online media.
Union Organizing
Union vote scheduled at The Columbian newspaper
Management at the family-owned paper isn’t mounting the kind of scorched-earth anti-union campaign that some employers use, but is making it clear they hope employees will vote no.
Union Organizing
Journalists unionize at Vancouver newspaper The Columbian
They love the work they do, and want a union so they can make The Columbian a place they can continue to work.
National
‘Seizing the memes of production’
A tidal wave of union organizing is sweeping online and print media.
Union Organizing
Unionization is sweeping the media
A wave of worker organizing is taking place in print and online media in search of greater job security.
