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IBEW Local 48

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.
Our 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.
Our 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 gumbo 

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. 
Our 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.
People

IBEW honors life savers

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

IBEW 48: $9 in raises, and an end to marijuana testing 

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

Construction industry confronts suicide in the ranks

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

IBEW Local 48 hosts ‘drive thru’ picnic for 6,700 members

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

Newell W. “Tim” Joy, 1925-2021

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

COVID close call

IBEW rep Scott Zadow, hospitalized with the virus, says COVID is no joke. This month local labor is partnering PBGC to host vaccine clinics.
Union democracy

Northwest Oregon Labor Council elects new officers by acclamation

As NOLC's new president, IBEW Local 48 business representative Scott Zadow will lead delegate and Board meetings.
People

Taking a building trades agenda to the Oregon Capitol

Electrician Wayne Chow, lobbying for the building trades in Salem, knows the difference a union makes, having suffered wage theft first hand.
Union democracy

City of Portland union coalition has new leadership

DCTU—a coalition of six unions—negotiates a collective bargaining agreement that covers about 1,100 City of Portland employees in all.
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