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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Pacific Northwest Carpenters Institute
Jobs
Construction charter school in East Multnomah County to close
Enrollment dwindled at union-backed ACE Academy, and the Carpenters needed the space.
Building our communities
Lock-down at Constructing Hope
Donors paid to bail out "prisoners" in a fundraiser for the pre-apprenticeship program.
Green Jobs
Trained home energy workers waiting for jobs
A year into a much-watched Portland pilot project, few union-trained workers have found "green jobs.”
