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 Education Association
Union democracy
Laurie Wimmer picked to lead Northwest Oregon Labor Council
After a lifetime of engagement with labor and politics, Wimmer brings decades of high-level experience to the job.
Oregon
OEA backs Tina Kotek, Christina Stephenson
The endorsements were decided by hundreds of delegates at a two-day virtual convention of the union’s political action committee.
Worker safety
Teachers union blasts Governor Brown for reversal on school reopening
Oregon took months to develop guidelines for safe reopening. Now they won’t be enforced, Governor Kate Brown announced.
Oregon
Union-backed initiatives would punish GOP walkout
The measures would fine Oregon lawmakers who fail to show up — and disqualify them from running for re-election.
Oregon
Public employees file lawsuit to protect PERS retirement benefits
Plaintiffs say SB 1049 is a breach of contract, an illegal taking, and violates the Constitution.
Oregon
Oregon teachers walk out for better school funding … and get it
Within a week of the walkout, lawmakers passed a bill to raise $1 billion a year for school funding through a tax on Oregon businesses with more than $1 million a year in sales.
Oregon
Statewide teacher strike set for May 8
Teachers around Oregon will take part in a one-day walkout May 8 to demand better school funding.
Oregon
Labor may go to the Oregon ballot on tax reform and workers rights
Oregon’s biggest unions are laying the groundwork for initiatives on the 2018 ballot — in case this year's Democratic-led Oregon Legislature doesn’t deliver.
Oregon
Measure 97 backers take their campaign to the Oregon Legislature
The union-backed coalition wants corporate tax transparency — and for big corporations to pay their fair share.
Oregon
Election night yields mixed scorecard for Oregon labor
Labor held the line in most races, but several losses stung.
In Memoriam
Robert G. Crumpton, 1935-2015
A longtime leader of OEA, he helped pass Oregon's public employee collective bargaining law.
Oregon
Labor-backed alliance to push bold agenda in the state capitol
2015 could be a breakthrough year for pro-worker legislation
Politics
Fund schools, not tests: Portland teachers sponsor family fun in Pioneer Square
Teachers unions are throwing a party with free pumpkins, face-painting … and standardized tests.Â
Politics
Union member runs for open seat in Oregon Legislature
Schoolteacher Deborah Barnes is running for Carolyn Tomei's Southeast Portland seat
Politics
Sizemore files bankruptcy to skirt paying unions
The longtime union foe faces millions in damages as a repeat violator of ballot initiative laws
Politics
First crop of Labor Candidate School grads run for public office
Oregon unions are training up members to run for office
Politics
Portland-area labor endorsements for May 21 election
Portland fluoridation fails to get 2/3 at NOLC, but labor endorses Metro levy, school board races
Union Organizing
Five years in, still no flood of unionization through card check
Just 2,487 public employees have unionized since Oregon's card check law passed.
Oregon
Sordid Sizemore saga continues
‘I am not a convicted racketeer!’ Bill Sizemore declares in new federal lawsuit.
Oregon/Washington
Rebutting the anti-union assault: A conversation with Oregon’s teachers union
The OEA’s Richard Sanders and Gail Rasmussen speak up for teachers union principles.
