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
Green Jobs
Climate change on labor’s radar
Labor wants to be in the room in talks about a carbon tax for Oregon
Trade
Top national trade expert to keynote at Fair Trade Campaign’s 10-year dinner
Lori Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch, is a frequent TV guest on trade politics
Building our communities
Labor joins with business to raise funds to knock out cancer
Phil Knight’s $500 million pledge spurs labor to join business for OHSU cancer research
Green Jobs
Labor to join rally to demand action on climate change
The NYC event is expected to be the largest climate change rally ever
Workers Rights
Will the minimum wage movement come to Oregon?
Cities are pre-empted by state law, but unions are planning to push a statewide increase in 2015
Workers Rights
Unions join renewed push for immigration reform
AFL-CIO calls on Obama to take executive action to allow millions to work legally
Workers Rights
Unions back effort to stop unjust discrimination against applicants with criminal records
The "ban the box" campaign wants employers and landlords to give ex-offenders a chance.
Politics
Labor gets seat on Portland’s utility reform task force
Blue-ribbon commission will come up with reforms to City water and sewer bureaus
In Memoriam
Jerry Greer, 1943-2014
Greer was a Machinists union rep and active in the Oregon AFL-CIO.
Politics
Labor tallies a raft of wins in local primary elections
Labor stopped the Bull Run Takeover, saved two incumbents, and sent a union rep to the state house
Worker safety
Unions remember fallen workers
Thirty-nine workers died in job-related accidents in Oregon in 2013.
Politics
Nurses union rep Rob Nosse runs strong House campaign in inner Southeast Portland
The union movement has a chance this year to enlarge the Oregon Legislature’s informal labor caucus
Comment
Dodging a Norquist attack on unions
Union foes wanted right-to-work in Oregon. They'll be back.
Politics
Mixed bag for labor in Oregon’s short legislative session
No big gains, but no setbacks either.
Oregon
‘Right-to-work’ initiative dropped
Sponsors of two anti-union initiative petitions — including a so-called right-to-work measure for public employees — have agreed to withdraw their measures aimed at...
Politics
State to include apprenticeships in education goals
Apprenticeships, left out earlier, will be counted as a post-secondary credential by the state
In Memoriam
Lloyd Knudsen, 1926-2014
The former Oregon AFL-CIO political director was a longtime member of IBEW Local 48
Oregon
Oregon AFL-CIO prioritizes bills for 35-day legislative session
Labor backs crackdown on large employers cutting hours to evade Obamacare requirement.
Jobs
Port of Portland drops plan to develop West Hayden Island
Union leaders angered over loss of industrial land
