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Longview-Kelso Building and Construction Trades Council
Worker safety
Child labor violator gets Port of Longview contract
Port commissioners voted to approve a $44 million contract for Rotschy, which was fined over $200,000 for safety and child labor violations.
Building our communities
Longview-Kelso Building Trades Council breaks record: Two tons
Volunteers from two dozen SW Washington labor groups donated two tons of ham to a nonprofit that assists low income families in Cowlitz County
Building our communities
Longview/Kelso Building Trades awards scholarships
The award supports the children or grandchildren of union members in unions that are affiliated with the building trades council.
In Memoriam
Jeffrey P. Washburn, 1957-2020
A 41-year member of the Plumbers and Fitters, he led the Cowlitz Wahkiakum Labor Council and the Longview/ Kelso Building Trades Council.
Comment
GUEST OPINION: The West Coast has become a wall halting landlocked states from exporting coal
Just because the Millennium Bulk Export Terminals project would ship coal, it has endured the most extensive project review in the history of Washington State.
Jobs
Building trades sign project labor agreement on proposed coal export plant in Longview
Pact encourages local source hiring of construction workers.
Jobs
Union pickets call on Port of Kalama to ‘Hire Local Labor’
Will Cargill grain terminal’s $100M expansion hire local union labor or low-wage out-of-town crews?
