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
Unions back effort to stop unjust discrimination against applicants with criminal records
The "ban the box" campaign wants employers and landlords to give ex-offenders a chance.
Unionist acquitted of trespass charge in right-to-work protest
Police turned out in force when unionists crashed an anti-union meeting.
Painting contractor tells NLRB he would rather close up shop than go union
Company owner represents himself in five-day trial
Good luck with that: One wage and hour investigator for every 123,000 workers
David Weil is the first Obama appointee to Wage and Hour to get through the Senate
City of Portland rolling back Walmart bond investments
City cashes out $9 million in Walmart bonds, to the applause of UFCW Local 555
Eugene task force to report back to City Council about paid sick leave
There appears to be majority support on City Council for an ordinance like the one in Portland.
No surprise: Portland park rangers vote union
Overcoming legal obstruction by the City, rangers are now part of DCTU
Unionists turn out for Portland May Day rally
International Workers Day draws hundreds to downtown march and rally
NLRB rules McKenzie-Willamette Hospital broke labor law
The Springfield facility is part of America’s second-biggest for-profit hospital chain
NLRB says painting contractor broke federal labor law
Nonunion Edwards Painting of Oregon City will go before a judge May 6
Eugene could be next to guarantee paid sick days
A labor-community coalition is finding City Council support for an ordinance
Arbitrator tells Clark County to follow the union contract
OPEIU Local 11 wins redress after a worker loses out to a less qualified junior co-worker
Judge strikes down SeaTac’s $15 minimum wage — for airport workers
The ballot measure still goes into effect for hotel workers
Sick leave ordinance will take effect in City of Portland Jan. 1
Backers plan to push for statewide legislation in 2015.
$15 SeaTac minimum wage challenged in court
Judge will rule by Jan. 1, when the law is to take effect
Supreme Court drops case over whether union neutrality is illegal
Employer neutrality toward unions could be considered illegal in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama
U.S. Supreme Court hears challenge to union neutrality agreements
Several justices grill a lawyer from an anti-union group
Judge rules PIRG call center fired worker for union activism
The Fund for the Public Interest is ordered to reinstate David Neal with back pay
City of Portland to union rep: Get off the property
A union rep distributes buttons and talks to members, without management's permission
After years of delay, Obama DOL says home care workers will get minimum wage, overtime
A decades-old exclusion ends for nearly 2 million workers.
