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Operating Engineers pickets question Boeing’s Integrity

When Local 701 pickets went up against a non-union equipment operator, members of Iron Workers Local 29 and other unions walked out, teaching apprentices the meaning of solidarity.

Portland City Council votes to end funding for five community recreation facilities

Up to 56 newly unionized workers will be laid off.

Georgia-Pacific Coos Bay: Another Oregon lumber mill closes for good

Georgia-Pacific abruptly closed its Coos Bay lumber mill April 11, permanently laying off 94 members of Machinists Local Lodge W261.

Plasterers Local 82 showcase their work for visiting architects

Apprentices demonstrated historical restoration, venetian plastering, stuccoing, and more.

County’s new health headquarters is union-made

Most of the work on the $94.1 million project was done union, and all parties worked to ensure women and minorities got opportunities on the project.

Rat spotted at Pearl District apartments

At Modera Glisan Project, nonunion temps are operating outside elevators instead of skilled Operating Engineers.

Union labor is remaking Portland’s Providence Park soccer stadium

The project will employ 120 union members at its peak.

On the job with IATSE Local 28

Almost no one knows what they do, but entertainment riggers are the workers that make the spectacle of show business possible.

On the Job with Plasterers Local 82

You might think plasterers would mostly be working in plaster, but today, fireproofing makes up half of Plasterers Local 82’s work.

Transit union cries foul as TriMet contracts out shuttle service for its own drivers

Is Oregon’s largest transit agency incapable of operating a single shuttle bus? You might think so given a recent TriMet board action.

So much for antitrust? Government approves merger of paper mill giants

More paper mill closures ahead? The nation’s second largest paper producer just gobbled up the fifth largest.

Topping-out ceremony at new Multnomah County courthouse

The steel framework on the new courthouse is near completion.

Municipal broadband now before Portland City Council

Multnomah County and four other cities are waiting for Portland City Council to authorize its share of funding for a study of what it would cost to install fiber-optic cable door to door.

New interactive tool looks at critical repairs needed at National Parks in Oregon

Tool breaks down $116.5 million of overdue repairs by park and type.

Private monopolies failed to deliver fiber. Now it’s time for municipal broadband.

Coming soon to Portland City Council is a union-backed plan for public-owned Internet access that would be cheaper than Comcast and 40 times as fast.

Introducing the Moxy: Union pension funds will finance a new downtown Portland hotel

Construction begins in October at 10th and Alder on a 12-story, $50 million "boutique lifestyle" hotel under the Marriott International's Moxy brand.

Union-backed coalition pushes bold vision for Broadway corridor project

Redevelopment of the 32-acre downtown site will set the tone for what kind of city Portland will be.

Ironworkers protest Facebook

In a major expansion of the Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon, a general contractor is using low-wage nonunion ironworkers from out of state.

Shame on Fortis? Or should it be ‘Shame on Facebook?’

Building trades union leaders are irked that some of the work on the Facebook data center in Prineville is going to nonunion subcontractors that pay below area-standard wages and use workers from out of state.

Union Iron Workers erect new roller coaster at Oaks Park in record time

The Adrenaline Peak roller coaster opens March 24.

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