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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Oregon AFL-CIO
Workers Rights
Portland City Council passes fair scheduling resolution
The non-binding resolution encourages all Portland employers to review their scheduling practices.
Comment
All politics is local
Local action spurring statewide and eventually national change is what the labor movement is all about.
Comment
Portland: Where rent empties workers’ pockets
Evictions and rampant rent increases are left unchecked in a state that forbids rent control.
Building our communities
Help in a housing crisis: Oregon AFL-CIO to turn its HQ into worker housing
A new union-funded, union-built development would combine union offices with affordable housing
Union Organizing
Oregon AFL-CIO endorses the Burgerville Workers Union
"Solidarity is a cornerstone of unionism," the resolution declares.
Politics
The union choice for Oregon Secretary of State is …
All three Democrats have close relationships with organized labor, but there ARE differences.
Worker safety
Oregon labor honors fallen workers
41 workers died in job-related accidents in Oregon last year.
Oregon
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
Two state senate Dems with long ties to labor will leave office when their terms expire this year
Jobs
FERC denies application for Jordan Cove LNG facility
The project – to be built under a project labor agreement – was backed by the Building Trades.
Oregon
Oregon Legislature: A lot at stake for working people
Lawmakers debate minimum wage, wage theft, UI for locked-out workers, and affordable housing.
Trade
Eugene City Council votes to oppose Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal
The vote follows a campaign by Oregon Strong Voice Lane County, a project of the Oregon AFL-CIO.
Worker safety
Governor Brown appoints two labor nominees to workers’ comp committee
Kevin Billman of UFCW and IBEW Local 48 staff attorney Diana Winther are nominees for MLAC.
Trade
Union retirees speak against proposed TPP trade deal
In Oregon, U.S Sen. Jeff Merkley and U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio say they will oppose the TPP.
Union Organizing
Bakers demand union recognition
At an industrial bakery in Gresham, low-wage workers want a union.
Workers Rights
Portland bans the box
Businesses will have to wait ’til after a conditional job offer to do criminal background checks.
People
Laborers’ Ben Nelson new Oregon AFL-CIO organizer
Nelson, a dedicated union organizer, was most recently Laborers Local 737 business manager.
Politics
Oregon Democratic Congressman Kurt Schrader turning hostile to union rights
The Oregon Democrat backs bills to diminish workers’ right to unionize or tack collective action.
Comment
Our workers’ movement must evolve
Oregon Strong Voice is one example of labor evolving to fit the times.
Oregon
Union coalition gets ready for Round Two
Fair Shot will push a minimum wage and tougher laws on wage theft and racial profiling in 2016.
