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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Union Organizing
Top Oregon state representative calls on New Seasons to respect workers’ rights
Tina Kotek says the company should stop playing games … and respect workers' right to organize.
Union Organizing
New Seasons deploys the same union-busters that Trump Las Vegas hotel used
After a second pro-union worker is fired, union supporters question the grocer’s ‘B Corp’ status.
Buying Union
Union-made gift ideas
Buying any gifts this holiday season? If you buy union, you help keep good jobs in the community, and vote with your dollars for enterprises that pay your fellow workers a living wage with benefits.
Union Organizing
New Seasons Market rebuffs call for meeting with union
UFCW Local 555 says the nonunion grocer has already fired one union supporter.
Union Organizing
Union drive launches at New Seasons
Two weeks after a group of New Seasons workers publicly announced a union campaign, the company hasn't yet responded to their appeal for neutrality.
Union democracy
Clay, Anderson, re-elected to lead United Food and Commercial Workers
Members of the state's largest private sector union favored the incumbents by a 3-to-1 margin.
Collective bargaining
Still no DCTU deal at City of Portland
The City union coalition is calling for 2 percent raises plus cost-of-living adjustments.
Politics
Labor highlights from the 2017 Oregon Legislature
Lawmakers passed landmark labor laws, but dropped the ball on tax fairness and housing.
Workers Rights
Fair Work Week: Oregon will be the first state to curb schedule abuses
A new law will give retail, hospitality and food service workers predictable schedules — and extra pay when schedules change at the last minute.
Health Care
Kaiser nurses issue warning: Short staffing could diminish patient care
Nurse union members, frustrated with slow progress on staffing committees, rally outside Kaiser's Northwest headquarters.
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.
Multnomah County
Labor Council takes stand against soda tax initiative
The Labor Council is discouraging union members from signing the initiative petitions.
Politics
May primary election results for Northwest Oregon
Passage of two big bonds is good news for local building trades unions
Oregon
At the Oregon Legislature: Labor’s agenda inches forward
Will the Oregon Legislature ban anti-union ‘right-to-work’ ordinances?
Union Organizing
UFCW Local 555: Safeway/Albertsons organizing drive brings in 4,400 new members
Safeway and Albertsons agreed to remain neutral, giving union organizers access to employees in the break room.
Politics
Labor weighs in on May school board and bond elections
Most of the endorsements are for school boards and school bond measures.
In Memoriam
Lon Imel, 1929-2017
Imel, a unionist since 1951, headed the NW Oregon Labor Council and served as labor liaison for Congressmembers Les AuCoin and Elizabeth Furse.
Oregon
At the Oregon Legislature: A Robust Labor Agenda
Labor muscle helped elect many of Oregon’s legislators. Now Oregon unions are mobilizing behind an agenda of fair taxes, good jobs, and expanded protections for workers rights. Here are some recent highlights.
Building our communities
House fire claims UFCW Local 555 member and injures member of Cement Masons Local 555
A fund has been set up to help the family.
