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IBEW Local 48
Building our communities
Recruiting out in the community
R&B. Barbecue. And a chance at a family wage. The Community Pulse Series is meant to recruit people of color to the trades.
Culture
Look for the union Rose Festival entries
Unions are once again taking part in Portland's annual Rose Festival parades. Here’s a list of who to look for.
Culture
A QUEST FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Interviews with 12 local construction tradeswomen reveals, no surprise: They want the same chance to succeed.
Collective bargaining
Residential electricians get $4/hour increase
The one-year contract covers work on single-family homes, duplexes, and some multi-family buildings in Oregon and Washington.
Collective bargaining
Sound & Comm electricians get $3.43 raise
The one-year contract between IBEW Local 48 and NECA covers more than 750 workers in the Sound & Communications unit.
Union Organizing
Union busters file disclosures at Schoolhouse Electric
Whatever they were paid, the consultants failed in their mission: Workers voted to unionize with IBEW Local 48 in August.
Collective bargaining
What do airport workers want? Raises that beat inflation
Portland International Airport workers represented by IBEW Local 48 and Laborers Local 483 are tired of working without raises.
Oregon
Kotek embraces labor support in final election push
Tina Kotek has appeared at union meetings and alongside numerous labor allies in the days leading up to the election.
Union Organizing
Schoolhouse Electric workers join IBEW
The vote establishes a new bargaining unit of 71 workers at the Schoolhouse facility in Northwest Portland.
Green Jobs
The future is electric
With flood of federal investments on the way, union electricians are looking to electric vehicle infrastructure as a massive growth industry.
People
Clif Davis retires and is succeeded by Wayne Chow
Clif Davis, former IBEW Local 48 business manager who held a business development position with IBEW District 9, retired in April.
Union Organizing
Schoolhouse Electric hires unionbusters
Eight months after Portland home goods maker Schoolhouse was sold to a new owner, its workers are ready for a union.
Union democracy
New officers at IBEW Local 48
Dave Jacobsen has been elected president of IBEW Local 48 and Garth Bachman was reelected as business manager.
Culture
THE PICNIC. IT’S BACK!
IBEW Local 48 members and their families attended the union's annual picnic outside the union hall on Sunday, July 9.
Jobs
Raising the roof
Union members are getting experience with mass timber at Portland International Airport's new terminal roof.
Training the Next Generation
Biden cabinet official visits Portland NECA-IBEW training center
U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, a former Boston building trades union leader, wants more women in the trades.
Collective bargaining
Portland Nabisco maintenance workers get raises
Machinists, electricians and operating engineers at the Mondelez-Nabisco bakery in Portland have new contract agreements.
Jobs
KGW-TV is being sold to a hedge fund … and that could be okay for workers
Media giant Tegna Inc. is being acquired by the New York based hedge fund Standard General for $5.4 billion.
Building our communities
Some serious union gumboÂ
For $20, attendees got seafood gumbo, corn bread, and dessert. This year, they sold out of gumbo after 350 bowls, and had to lock the doors.Â
Jobs
Amazon shuts out union workers in Woodburn
Local building trade unions have been picketing the colossal construction site to protest out-of-state contractors and subpar wages.
