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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Collective bargaining
CWA gets bare-bones contract with Fund for the Public Interest
Rules at the PIRG fundraiser will be slightly less draconian under the first-ever union agreement.
Collective bargaining
Strike at PIRG call center marks two-year union drive
Two years after voting to unionize, no contract, but no surrender either.
Worker safety
PIRG call center pulls the chairs out from under workers
A PIRG call center tosses ergonomic chairs and gives union workers stackable metal chairs to sit on
Collective bargaining
PIRG fundraisers strike
Fund for the Public Interest negotiators walk out of union bargaining when a reporter shows up.
Collective bargaining
PIRG fundraising group fires all but one member of union bargaining team
Draconian policies at the Portland call center lead to sky-high turnover
Workers Rights
OSPIRG call center fires a third union activist
Phone canvassers strike an hour to protest the third firing of a member of their bargaining team.
Workers Rights
OSPIRG fundraiser fires pro-union workers
Workers at Fund for the Public Interest’s Portland call center voted in October to unionize.
