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 Building and Construction Trades Council
Worker safety
Pandemic effects ripple across the construction industry
Across the building trades, opinions vary about whether to stay working or stay at home in the midst of a pandemic.
Building our communities
Building Trades joins group battling opioid addiction
The RX Abuse Leadership Initiative of Oregon launched Oct. 1 at the Northeast Portland union hall shared by Bricklayers Local 1 and Cement Masons Local 555.
Union democracy
2019 Oregon Building Trades Convention
About 175 delegates and guests heard about the national building trades fight with Trump, and resolved to hold future conventions biennially.
Oregon
What’s at stake for working people in the 2019 Oregon Legislature
Majority Democrats have some big agenda items in the 2019 Oregon Legislature, including a carbon cap, renters rights, and revenue reform.
People
The new face of Oregon’s building trades
Robert Camarillo, the new leader of Oregon’s construction unions, is a 41-year-old first generation American with the heart of an organizer.
Worker safety
Industrial Athlete campaign to launch at Intel jobsite
The campaign will focus on improving health in the construction industry, which is disproportionately affected by heart disease and stroke.
Union democracy
Ironworker Robert Camarillo will head Oregon Building Trades
The council coordinates the state-level political efforts of 21 affiliated building trades unions.
Politics
Labor highlights from the 2017 Oregon Legislature
Lawmakers passed landmark labor laws, but dropped the ball on tax fairness and housing.
Union democracy
National building trades sees natural gas as ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to grow ranks
The annual Oregon building trades convention drew a who's who of the state's top elected officials
Jobs
Port of Portland drops plan to develop West Hayden Island
Union leaders angered over loss of industrial land
Union democracy
Portland-based Boilermakers Local 500 consolidates with Local 242 in Spokane
The new local represents 550 construction boilermakers in Washington and Oregon
