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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United Auto Workers
Union Organizing
Workers say no to union at Mississippi Nissan plant
After a decade-long campaign by United Auto Workers, workers at a Nissan auto plant in Canton, Mississippi rejected unionization in a 2,244 to 1,307 vote Aug. 3-4.
Collective bargaining
Machinists at Bodycote battle for first contract
Camas Bodycote workers voted last June to unionize, but are still trying to get a first contract
Buying Union
A quest to find Union Beer
It’s not easy to ID union-made beer. There’s no union label, and little accurate, up-to-date info.
In Memoriam
Ralph Rigdon, 1928-2014
The longtime UAW member was active in union and Democratic politics
Labor History
1963 March on Washington — time to march again
Conventional narratives of the March downplay its economic demands — and labor’s central role
International
Hunger for justice
Hunger strikers demand GM take responsibility for injured workers in Colombia.
