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Clean energy projects taking advantage of tax credits will have to pay prevailing wage and employ apprentices.

The contest tests utility line workers for speed, safety and trade skills, and raises money for the Oregon Burn Center.

Oregon Tradeswomen, the nonprofit that supports women entering the building trades, received $150,000 in grant funding from Google.

Bricklayers Local 1 apprentices are some of the best in the West, according to the 2022 Western region apprenticeship contest.

Sheet Metal Institute in Portland was the host this month of the 2022 Northwest Regional Sheet Metal Apprentice Competition.

In their first competition in two years, UA Local 290 apprentices showed demonstrated their fitting, plumbing, welding and HVAC skills.

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, a former Boston building trades union leader, wants more women in the trades.

A new union program is skilling up behavioral health workers, and even lawyers are looking at apprenticeship as an alternative to the bar.

Local union apprenticeship programs have had much more success than non-union getting Black, Hispanic, and women workers into construction.

Operating Engineers Local 701 became a sponsor of the Canby Rodeo this year, and set up its popular mobile simulator at the fair.