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.
Workers Rights
Portland considers ‘Ban the Box’ ordinance
The ordinance would give people with criminal records a better shot at becoming employed.
Amid union activity, Grand Central Baking closes cafe
Laborers Local 483 says Sawtooth Cafe closed early after an employee protest
Madore floats right to work resolution in Clark County, Washington
County employees could get the benefits of a union without having to pay for it.
Klamath Falls Walmart disciplines strikers
Ismael Nunez protests his firing, and two others are written up for striking
Portland airport shop workers want a union too
Workers at the Portland airport Kiehl’s, Rich’s News, Oregonian, and The Market want a union
City of Portland passes $15 minimum for its contracted service workers
The wage floor covers 150 janitors and guards and parking attendants and about 20 City workers
PDX: a highly desirable workplace, for managers
Port of Portland hires a $197-an-hour consultant to develop its policy to help low-wage workers
Common Sense Economics introduced at Labor Law Conference
The program illustrates why today’s economy isn’t working for working people.
Port to weigh PDX worker reforms
Port Commission will hear proposal for “worker retention” at March 11 meeting
Klamath Falls Walmart fires worker who went on strike
Ismael Nuñez struck to protest retaliation against other workers. Now HE's been terminated.
Port of Portland will consider a “social equity” policy for airport workers
PDX lags behind other West Coast airports in raising standards for low-wage service workers
Moment of decision for the taxi industry
Encircled by Uber, Portland is preparing a top-to-bottom review of taxi regulations
American Federation of Teachers bans Coca-Cola
Five national unions now have resolutions on Coke's complicity in violence against unionists
Laborers Local 483 cartoon asks City of Portland to ‘play fair’
Union says City of Portland rec centers are misclassifying workers as seasonals
Three Walmart workers strike in Klamath Falls
OUR Walmart says 1,600 Walmart protests took place nationwide on Black Friday
San Francisco passes nation’s first Retail Workers Bill of Rights
Big chain employers will pay a price if they want to change schedules at the last minute
Buyer beware: You can still be fired for legal marijuana
Oregon may have legalized, but many employers won't change their policies
Federal judge orders employer to hire seven union painters
Edwards Painting violated federal labor law 18 separate ways.
At an upscale Pearl District apartment project, a union blows the whistle on wage theft
General contractor Lorentz Bruun pays $85,000 to settle DOL case against woman-owned paint subcontractor
Shipyard workers picket smoking ban
Shipyard workers at six Vigor worksites protest imposition of smoking ban without consulting union
