Who We Are
New Seasons Labor Union - UE Local 1010 began in the spring of 2022. Workers at the Seven Corners store, inspired by the success of independent organizing around the country, decided to form a new union from the ground up. Since then, our union has grown to represent nearly a thousand workers at ten stores.
In 2025, we affiliated with UE - A national independent union committed to aggressive struggle, social justice, and organizing the unorganized,
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If you work at an unrepresented New Seasons, you can join NSLU. Organizing campaigns are planned and run by rank-and-file workers.
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Latest News
Collective Bargaining Agreement
Seven Corners:The Employer, pursuant to a certification of the National Labor Relations Board (Case No. Case 19-RC-296617), dated September 15, 2022, recognizes the Union as the sole and exclusive collective bargaining agent of the Employer's regular full-time and regular part-time employees, inc...
Strike threat secures industry-leading contract for New Seasons workers.
More than 95% of members will make over $20/hr. The minimum rate for new hires will start at $19/hr and adjust to compensate for inflation through annual cost of living adjustments. Workers also won improved working conditions. Cashiers will now have the option to sit down. All employees will hav...
November 4th Bargaining Update
In our November 4th bargaining session, the company tentatively agreed to our proposal on Bargaining Unit Work, securing important protections for our jobs and hours. The company also made major concessions on Management Rights, allowing us to get a Tentative Agreement on an article that had rema...
October 23 Bargaining Update
At our October 23rd bargaining session, the company presented a full counter to our last set of proposals. Despite months of insisting that their previous offer was the best they could do, the company, in the face of an escalating strike threat, made numerous concessions on important issues. Thes...
Williams Workers Save Coworkers' Job
September 25, 2025Ethan H. from Williams, one of our bargaining committee co-chairs, was recently investigated for missing work to attend a bargaining session. New Seasons had previously agreed to “work release” meaning that staff on the bargaining team were allowed to miss work to attend the neg...
October 2nd Bargaining Update
Today our Bargaining Committee met for contract bargaining with the company. Over the past few months, we have attempted to find acceptable compromises that can help us reach a resolution to this ongoing contract fight. Today, as part of that effort, we submitted a new package of counter-proposal...
Members Launch Strike Pledge
September 25, 2025Workers packed Steeplejack Brewing on Thursday night to eat, drink, and celebrate the final push to a union contract. After 3 years of struggling, NSLU-UE has the resources to force a life-changing contract before the end of the year.The event began with Mark Meinster, UE’s nati...
Bargaining Update - May 2025
Greetings, NSLU! The Bargaining Committee met with the company on May 29th, presented them with your overwhelming rejection of the company’s attendance offer, and reached a Tentative Agreement on nine new contract articles.With 84% of votes rejecting the Company’s final attendance offer, you show...
Bargaining Update - April 2025
We met with the company on Thursday, April 3rd and presented counter proposals on all outstanding articles for the contract. We came down on wages and other, less-costly economic proposals. New Seasons’ current proposal is below inflation, and about half of staff would only get a $0.50 raise.New ...
ULP Strike Expands!
After almost 19 years of a spotless discipline record, Randy has been targeted twice in the last 2 months for minor policy violations, both done in service of his legally blind coworker. The final incident which led to his firing was for helping his coworker shut his register down while Randy was...
NSLU Demands Reinstatement and Accountability for Unjust Termination
Jasper was fired from the Grant Park store for exercising their legally protected union rights, having taken part in strike action on November 27, 2024, during which they faced a threatening attack on the picket line. During the strike, an Uber driver drove into the picket line, endangering picke...
Resolution on SBWU
The below resolution was adopted at the December 5th, 2024 NSLU membership meeting. Whereas, NSLU is committed to broad working class organization, as shown in our bylaws and our commitment to a May Day 2028 General Strike. Relationships NSLU has built with other Unions like PAT, BVWU and others,...
Resolution on May 1 2028 General Strike
The intent of this type of strike is not for individual concessions, but the mass collective nature of the action nurtures a broad bond of solidarity across unions to strengthen the collective efficacy of strikes as powerful means of change; andWHEREAS, the power that unions have derives from our...
PRESS RELEASE: New Seaons Labor Union On Strike Nov 27th
- On Wednesday, November 27th, workers at all eleven unionized New Seasons Market locations will engage in a one-day Unfair Labor Practice Strike in response to the company's numerous ongoing unfair labor practices. The union is also calling for a customer boycott this holiday season. “We have ...
Bargaining Update October 2024
This bargaining recap contains incredibly important updates in regards to the status of contract negotiations, and a new strike authorization vote. Please read to the end. Bargaining Update: October 23-24 NSM squirms over strike threat New Seasons opened bargaining on Wednesday morning by a...
PRESS RELEASE - New Seasons Labor Union On Strike - Sunday, September 1st
- On Sunday, September 1st, workers at ten New Seasons Market locations will participate in a one-day Unfair Labor Practice Strike in response to the company's unfair labor practices and bad-faith bargaining. The stores participating in the strike action are: Arbor Lodge (6400 N Interstate Ave, ...
PRESS RELEASE - New Seasons Workers to Vote On Strike
— Workers at New Seasons Market (NSM), represented by New Seasons Labor Union (NSLU), will vote whether to authorize a one-day strike over unfair labor practices. “This vote would empower us to take decisive action. New Seasons Market must acknowledge our resolve and end their unfair labor practi...
Strike Vote August 2024 / Voto de Huelga Agosto de 2024
Dear Members, Last night, your Steering Committee met to respond to the recent bargaining sessions between New Seasons Labor Union and the company. The Steering Committee voted to send a Strike Authorization Vote to you, by a unanimous vote of the 22 representatives present. This vote will be for...
Bargaining Update - July 23rd 2024
Dear coworkers, At today’s bargaining session, the company asked to reduce your breaks to 10 minutes, and for language that would let them get rid of “lifestyle scheduling”, and provide no guaranteed hours for staff. We have waited over a year for a company proposal on hours of work, only to rec...
Steering Committee Statement on Student Protests
As an independent grocery store union representing workers & community members from all walks of life, we condemn the widespread criminalization of protest and first amendment rights happening not only on campuses across the country, but in our own community of Portland, Oregon. The suppressi...
Bargaining Update March 2024
NSLU met with New Seasons on March 26th for an all-day bargaining session. Package Proposal NSLU heard the latest counter-proposal from NSM on the package of articles including Discipline & Discharge, Grievance & Arbitration, Rights of Union Stewards, and Strikes & Lockouts. The c...
March 2024 Membership Meeting Recap
March All-Store Meeting Recap Members assembled on March 7th to decide on behalf of NSLU. The meeting was at the Musician’s local 99 hall due to a scheduling conflict. Future meetings will be back at Kenilworth Presbyterian Church. Just Cause Ballot Measure Endorsed Mathew Fennell, the presid...
NSLU gets a new website!
Welcome everyone to the new New Seasons Labor Union web site! It has been a busy 3-4 week development process, but we are finally ready to launch! Posts prior to today are reposted from the old site, so the authoring date is not correct on them. Please bear with us through any other growing pains.
Resolution on Palestine
This resolution was passed unanimously after amendment at the November 2nd 2023 all-store meeting. NSLU normally publishes motion and resolution texts only in the meeting minutes of these meetings, but this resolution is of special importance to current events and is here published as it was adop...
Bargaining Update April 27 2023
April Bargaining Updates NSLU and NSM met up at the bargaining table twice during the month of April, on the 11th and 27th. At these sessions a number of important proposals and counter-proposals were made on Attendance, Stewards Rights, the Grievance Process, Bargaining Unit Work, and more! The ...
Bargaining Update Feb 21 2023
This round of bargaining began with discussion over the company rescinding Covid protections for staff effective at the beginning of January, which have been the primary focus of the ongoing pickets at NSM stores. At the close of the last bargaining session, NSLU’s Bargaining Team made a proposal...
Bargaining Update August 2023
Ten days after a swath of NSLU members descended on New Season’s corporate office to demand the company end its illegally discriminatory attendance rules, New Seasons has not only failed to come into compliance with the law, but doubled down on its draconian aims. In Thursday’s bargaining sessi...
Bargaining Update March 28 2023
On March 28th, the NSLU bargaining team went back to the negotiating table with the company. This is the latest bargaining session to take place since late February, as the company had to back out of the session scheduled for March 15th. Of most immediate note, the bargaining team communicated to...
Bargaining Update Feb 2024
The bargaining team met with the company on February 21st and 22nd to negotiate the collective bargaining agreement. Most time was spent trading counter-proposals on a package deal of 4 articles that would exchange the right to strike while the contract is in force for the right to just cause ...
Bargaining Update November 2023
On November 9th, New Seasons Labor Union and New Seasons Market met to bargain for eight hours at Lloyd Center. Having previously reached tentative agreement on reasonable seating, labor-management committees, non-discrimination and harassment, force majeure, and severability, Thursday’s bargaini...
Bargaining Update October 2023
On October 24th and 25th, NSLU’s all-worker bargaining team met with the company for a second round of in-person bargaining. No tentative agreements were reached, but the company moved from its entrenched position on the attendance policy, and submitted counter-offers on a grievance procedure, st...
Bargaining Update September 2023
NSLU Files Charges for Bad-Faith Bargaining On September 11th, New Seasons Labor Union filed labor board charges against New Seasons management for bargaining in bad faith, an unfair labor practice. The charges follow the contentious August 24th bargaining session in which NSM hard-lined their ...
Bargaining Update July 2023
July Bargaining Update It was a big month for bargaining! After a hiatus in June, NSM and NSLU met for two bargaining sessions in July: one all-day session and one half-day. The majority of these sessions consisted of New Seasons countering several proposals we have made over the last few month...
Contract Progress Tracker
Living Wage: $27.04/hr minimum starting wage, adjust current wages and pay scales accordingly. Cost of Living Adjustment: Keep standard increase, and further adjust wages to inflation up to 5%. Profit Sharing: Bring back 20% profit sharing. Increased PTO: We deserve at least an extra week of ...
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