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Apprentice competitions return

May 4, 2022

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

Biden cabinet official visits Portland NECA-IBEW training center

Mar 31, 2022

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

Apprenticeship is catching on

Jan 19, 2022

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

Want diversity in construction? Hire union

Nov 17, 2021

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

Operating Engineers recruit at the rodeo

Sep 1, 2021

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

UA Local 290’s training facility welcomes Labor Secretary Walsh

Aug 18, 2021

Walsh, together with Congressman Peter DeFazio and Oregon Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle, toured the union’s training facility in Springfield.

Journeyman card counts toward college credit

May 18, 2021

Mount Hood Community College has agreements with over a dozen union apprenticeship programs to award equivalent college credits.

Maybe shoulda Googled ‘rat contractor’?

Apr 14, 2021

Crestline, a heavy civil general contractor headquartered in The Dalles, doesn’t have a state-approved apprenticeship program.

New labor representation on Apprenticeship Council

Mar 17, 2021

Laborers Local 737 political assistant Danielle Garza joins several other unionists on the Oregon Apprenticeship and Training Council.

Subsidized child care helps parents enter building trades

Aug 4, 2020

For parents who want in to the building trades, finding childcare has been a hurdle. Now a Labor’s Community Service Agency program is making a difference.