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Laborers Local 737
Collective bargaining
Laborers strike at CertainTeed ends with bigger raises
The strike shut down production at the company’s asphalt roof tile plant at 6350 NW Front Ave. for two and a half weeks.
In Memoriam
Aida Aranda, 1962-2023
Training center director Aida Aranda, who died Feb. 27, was a proud Laborer and a dedicated advocate for apprenticeship.
Collective bargaining
Laborers strike shuts CertainTeed shingle plant
Three days after voting down a company contract offer, workers at a Northwest Portland roof shingle factory walked out and shut it down.
Building our communities
Presents from Partners
The annual charity drive is a way to make holidays a little brighter for union families that find themselves in hardship.
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.
Culture
Construction coalition plans campaign to end on-the-job harassment of women, minorities
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
Green jobs, but not for you
Oregon construction unions say state-subsidized clean energy work is going to nonunion out-of-state firms and out-of-state crews.
Worker safety
Pandemic effects ripple across the construction industry
Across the building trades, opinions vary about whether to stay working or stay at home in the midst of a pandemic.
Building our communities
Laborers Local 737 donates masks
The union training center donated its supply of N-95 protective masks to front-line health care workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
Jobs
TriMet awards transit project to union-signatory minority contractor
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.
Union Organizing
Four migrant day care centers join Laborers 737
Workers at four non-profit child care centers in Marion and Clackamas counties voted 61 to 56 to unionize with Laborers Local 737.
In Memoriam
Laborers representative Kyle Estes killed in head-on collision
Estes was on his way to Portland for a union training when an oncoming driver swerved into his lane.
Building our communities
Building Trades’ conservation project helps Boy Scouts
Volunteers from Roofers Local 49 and Laborers Local 737 teamed with the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance to construct a shooting sports complex.
Building our communities
Union members volunteer at fishing derby
About 2,500 kids ages 5 to 14 got to keep two fish, and every child got a Zebco rod and reel.
Collective bargaining
Vigor shipyard workers vote to authorize strike
Tired of being disrespected, shipyard workers are demanding a family-friendly work week.
Union democracy
Metal trades council elects new officers
Jason Joeckel of Laborers Local 737 is the new secretary-treasurer of the Metal Trades Council, which represents workers at the Portland Shipyards.
Union democracy
Laborers Local 737 elects its first business manager
Zack Culver won the vote for business manager Aug. 17 in the first completed union officer election of the statewide merged local.
Building our communities
Northwest Oregon Labor Council banquet recognizes union supporters, raises cash for labor charity
The Labor Appreciation and Recognition Night banquet raised a record $21,000 for Labor’s Community Service Agency.
People
Laborers leader Dave Tischer clocks out
Tischer, 54, retired Jan. 1 after 19 years as a leader in Locals 320 and 737.
People
Laborers’ Ben Nelson new Oregon AFL-CIO organizer
Nelson, a dedicated union organizer, was most recently Laborers Local 737 business manager.
