IBEW Local 48 Archives - nwLaborPress

With flood of federal investments on the way, union electricians are looking to electric vehicle infrastructure as a massive growth industry.

Clif Davis, former IBEW Local 48 business manager who held a business development position with IBEW District 9, retired in April.

Eight months after Portland home goods maker Schoolhouse was sold to a new owner, its workers are ready for a union.

Dave Jacobsen has been elected president of IBEW Local 48 and Garth Bachman was reelected as business manager.

IBEW Local 48 members and their families attended the union’s annual picnic outside the union hall on Sunday, July 9.

Union members are getting experience with mass timber at Portland International Airport’s new terminal roof.

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

Machinists, electricians and operating engineers at the Mondelez-Nabisco bakery in Portland have new contract agreements.

Media giant Tegna Inc. is being acquired by the New York based hedge fund Standard General for $5.4 billion.

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.