IBEW Local 48 Archives - nwLaborPress

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.

Local building trade unions have been picketing the colossal construction site to protest out-of-state contractors and subpar wages.

Three Local 48 members helped save the lives of two ironworkers after a roof collapse on a construction project in summer 2020.

The new agreement covers inside wiremen — about 3,900 Local 48 members, plus travelers from other IBEW locals working in the jurisdiction.

Construction workers commit suicide at three times the national average. More die by suicide than job site injuries or accidents.

Members pre-registered and were assigned time slots and the picnic was held in shifts over two Sundays in July.

As business representative at IBEW Local 48, Joy helped found the union’s Edison pension trust in 1969. He was 95.