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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

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 ...