Northwest Labor Press is an independent union-supported newspaper founded in 1900. Our print version is mailed twice a month to about 45,000 members of over three dozen local unions in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Our online version has been maintained here since 1997.
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Laborers Local 320
Culture
Women in the Trades
Nationally, women have never accounted for more than 3 percent of building trades workers. We asked three women building trades workers to share their stories.
People
Laborers leader Dave Tischer clocks out
Tischer, 54, retired Jan. 1 after 19 years as a leader in Locals 320 and 737.
Union democracy
Introducing Laborers Local 737
Laborers Locals 296, 320, and 121 merge to make Local 737
Union democracy
Dave Tischer re-elected at Laborers Local 320
It's Tischer's fourth term as top officer of the 900-member heavy highway local
Collective bargaining
Laborers Local 320 settles contract at CertainTeed after one-day strike
The French-owned shinglemaker improves its bargaining offer after a walkout
Union democracy
Jodi Guetzloe Parker elected to lead local building trades
The LiUNA 320 member will be among a handful of women nationally to lead a building trades council.
Jobs
Big Pipe project wraps up ahead of schedule
Rosie, the 530-ton tunnel boring machine, has finished tunneling on the East Side Big Pipe project, the largest public infrastructure project in Portland’s history. At its peak, more than 100 members of Laborers Local 320, and 150 members of Operating Engineers Local 701 worked on the project.
