Laborers Local 737 Archives

Laborers strike at CertainTeed ends with bigger raises

Mar 16, 2023

The strike shut down production at the company’s asphalt roof tile plant at 6350 NW Front Ave. for two and a half weeks.

Aida Aranda, 1962-2023

Mar 15, 2023

Training center director Aida Aranda, who died Feb. 27, was a proud Laborer and a dedicated advocate for apprenticeship.

Laborers strike shuts CertainTeed shingle plant

Mar 2, 2023

Three days after voting down a company contract offer, workers at a Northwest Portland roof shingle factory walked out and shut it down.

Presents from Partners

Dec 14, 2022

The annual charity drive is a way to make holidays a little brighter for union families that find themselves in hardship.

Construction industry confronts suicide in the ranks

Sep 1, 2021

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

Construction coalition plans campaign to end on-the-job harassment of women, minorities

Dec 16, 2020

More than 60 union leaders, general contractors, public project owners, trade groups, and others took part in a Dec. 3 Safe From Hate summit.

Green jobs, but not for you

Jul 14, 2020

Oregon construction unions say state-subsidized clean energy work is going to nonunion out-of-state firms and out-of-state crews.

Pandemic effects ripple across the construction industry

Apr 15, 2020

Across the building trades, opinions vary about whether to stay working or stay at home in the midst of a pandemic.

Laborers Local 737 donates masks

Apr 1, 2020

The union training center donated its supply of N-95 protective masks to front-line health care workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

TriMet awards transit project to union-signatory minority contractor

Feb 5, 2020

Raimore Construction will be the general contractor on the $60 million construction portion of the Division Transit Project, which will be the largest construction contract awarded to a minority contractor in Oregon history.