The Northwest Labor Press is a newspaper which covers the American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 labor movement in the Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest

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The newspaper covers union organizing campaigns, contract negotiations, strikes, and news about labor unions in Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

 and southwest Washington.

The target audience for the journal comprises workers, and union leaders and members.

The Northwest Labor Press was founded in 1900, and is one of the oldest trade union

Trade union

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 publications in the United States. It is published biweekly by the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Company, a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 co-owned by 20 local labor unions and the Oregon AFL-CIO

Oregon AFL-CIO

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