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 Employment Relations Board
Collective bargaining
Public sector strike surge outstrips dispute-mediating system
Oregon school teachers ready to walk out? It can take a month to schedule a mediator.
Union Organizing
Union vote set for Oregon legislative aides
Ballots will be counted May 28 to determine if a group of 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers want a union.
Workers Rights
Oregon Justice Department says legislative workers can’t unionize
Legislative aides don’t have the right to unionize after all, says Oregon's Attorney General in objections on behalf of the Legislature.
Workers Rights
Oregon Supreme Court ruling expands union grievance rights
Workers can’t be denied union grievance rights just because they’re pursuing outside legal action.
Union Organizing
OSU grad students crash donor party
Oregon State University is refusing to recognize a union of graduate research assistants.
Collective bargaining
ATU seeks to overturn TriMet’s win in contract arbitration
Though an arbitrator sided with TriMet, the union says some contract provisions are illegal.
Union Organizing
University of Oregon backs off its challenge to faculty union
United Academics is certified after Governor Kitzhaber weighs in.
Collective bargaining
Oregon Employment Relations Board rules against TriMet
ERB says TriMet owes workers retroactive wage increases.
Oregon
Oregon Senate confirms Kitzhaber appointees
Dozens of Kitzhaber appointees were confirmed, including including a handful important to labor.
