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Machinists District Lodge W24

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
Union democracy

Elliott named to top post at Machinists District W24

The former Weyerhaeuser worker will finish the term of Bob Wilson, who retired July 1.
Collective bargaining

Machinists, Painters strike Daimler Trucks

Workers have been falling behind economically while the company prospers
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