Machinists District Lodge W24 Archives

The pre-apprenticeship nonprofit is hemorrhaging board members and staff and may be losing favor with local unions.

Machinists District Lodge W24 at its annual awards banquet June 17 honored nearly 125 members for their years of service as union members.

They help women get into rewarding union careers. Now, they’ll will be union members too, affiliating with Machinists District Lodge W24.

Union Organizing

After 40 years of union representation, workers at Portland manufacturer Pierce Pacific will no longer be members of Machinists District Lodge W24.

For the first time since 1986, loggers and millworkers faced off against one of the world’s biggest corporations.

The vote brings a five-year saga to a close in which company lawyers stonewalled union supporters at every turn.

Machinists union members voted down another Weyerhaeuser proposal that failed to fix the core issues behind the walkout.

Weyerhaeuser mills and log yards across the Northwest have been silent as the lumber giant faces off against its own workers.

Machinists Local Lodge 1005 and District Lodge W24 are reminding Pierce-Pacific workers of the benefits of union representation.

Daimler started producing the long-awaited eCascadia this summer, and plans to start deliveries of the all-electric big rig later this year.