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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.

STARS banquet canceled, Painters still receive bonuses they earned

Apr 29, 2020

Part of a program to field the best-trained workforce in the industry, Local 10 members get bonuses for skill advancement and safety classes they take.

Bricklayers Local 1 apprentices compete

Mar 18, 2020

The annual contest in bricklaying, tilesetting, marble, and pointer/cleaner/caulker requires participants to build a project from a blueprint in five hours.

New construction tech debuts at Local 701’s Canby facility

Mar 17, 2020

For a week in early March, journeymen and apprentices in Operating Engineers Local 701 got hands on with a new breed of high-tech heavy equipment.

Oregon Tradeswomen is moving to Gresham

Dec 4, 2019

On Jan. 10, the group will move into a newly renovated 8,300-square-foot space, part of the 5.5-acre Rockwood Rising development.