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Machinists District Lodge W24
Workers Rights
Precision Castparts still refusing to recognize Machinist union
The company hopes a new Trump-appointed NLRB majority will vindicate its lawlessness.
Union Organizing
Welders at Precision Castparts vote to join Machinists union
A "micro-unit" wins at a company where four previous union campaigns failed.
Union Organizing
Machinists win the right to union election for welders at Precision Castparts
A union win Sept. 22 would be the first at one of the area’s largest nonunion industrial employers.
Union Organizing
At Precision Castparts, Machinists campaign to organize ‘micro-union’
This time, they seek to represent a group of 102 welders.
People
Machinists rep Joe Kear retires
Kear helped reform the local Machinists union, and persuaded Daimler not to close its Portland truck plant.
Jobs
Boeing terminates contract with union paint contractor
147 Machinists-represented workers will be terminated, though many may end up being hired by the new contractor.
Collective bargaining
DEAL: Daimler and unions reach agreement on a new 5-year contract at the Portland truck plant
Wages will rise by $3.25 an hour for the plant's 500+ workers.
Politics
Support for TPP costs Gov. Kate Brown endorsement from Oregon Machinists
Gov. Kate Brown’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has cost her an endorsement from the Machinists Non-Partisan Political League (MNPL), the political arm...
Union Organizing
At a Boeing paint contractor, workers vote to join Machinists union
An 11th-hour anti-union blitz fell flat at a contractor where workers make half the wage of their union counterparts.
Union Organizing
At a Boeing contractor in Portland, workers vote whether to go union
Well-paid professional union-busters will try to talk low-wage workers out of unionizing.
Collective bargaining
Unable to get a first contract, union withdraws from Bodycote
The company bargained with the Machinists for 17 months without getting to basics.
Workers Rights
Portland airport contractor ABM fires union activist
ABM is refusing to recognize IAM, and the firing could be part of a deliberate legal strategy
Workers Rights
Airport contractor refuses to bargain with Machinists
ABM would rather pay lawyers to delay the inevitable.
Collective bargaining
Machinists at Bodycote battle for first contract
Camas Bodycote workers voted last June to unionize, but are still trying to get a first contract
Collective bargaining
Machinists conduct informational picket at Bodycote in Camas
Workers are having a tough time getting a first union contract
People
Dan Sass ends long career at Machinists Lodge W24
Starting at Lodge 1432 in 1971, Sass rose to become secretary-treasurer of the Oregon Machinists
People
Machinists, Metal Trades, DCU have void to fill with Scott Lucy retirement
Lucy has been with the Machinists for 35 years.
Collective bargaining
Machinists obtain modest first contract for Chehalis foundry workers
Bargaining will resume again next year with Australian multinational Bradken … if “decert” fails
Collective bargaining
Strike on horizon at City of Portland
City denies vacation requests, and union gets "ready to walk"
Collective bargaining
Bradken foundry: No contract, a year after union vote
Workers are seeking a fair and transparent pay scale
