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Metro votes 6-1 to move forward on I-5 Bridge Replacement

Jan 19, 2022

Building trades leaders were steamed when Metro commissioner Mary Nolan voted “no” on funding for a bridge over the Columbia River. 

Jobs

Jobs on the ballot

Oct 13, 2020

Two local ballot measures could make the difference between jobs and joblessness for thousands of workers.

Jobs

Now open to the public, the Portland Hyatt Regency Convention Center was largely union-built

Jan 15, 2020

The hotel opened Dec. 19– on budget, and ahead of schedule.

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Tilesetting jobs were the one union sore spot on the Hyatt project

Jan 15, 2020

Bricklayers Local 1 warned Mortenson that there’d be problems with non-union contractor.

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New Convention Center hotel will be union built

Aug 16, 2017

And likely union operated, as Hyatt signs a neutrality agreement with UNITE HERE Local 8

Collective Bargaining

AFSCME wins big gains for Metro temp workers

Mar 19, 2015

An agreement between the Metro regional government and AFSCME Local 3580 will deliver raises of up to $3.92 an hour to about 50 newly unionized workers at the Metro waste transfer station and Oregon Zoo

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Collective Bargaining

Laborers Local 483 reaches tentative agreement at Metro

Sep 2, 2014

The four-year deal includes raises and new rights for temps, but also some union concessions

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Collective Bargaining

New contract for AFSCME members at Metro

Jul 22, 2014

If ratified, 300+ workers will get 2.82% raises, and pay an extra 2% of health insurance premiums

Collective Bargaining

Laborers Local 483 proclaims ‘Zoolidarity’ in campaign for a better contract at Metro

Jul 1, 2014

Metro’s contract with AFSCME Local 3580 has also expired

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Convention Center hotel closer to breaking ground

Oct 1, 2013

Hyatt would be neutral toward hotel workers unionizing.

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