Operating Engineers Local 701 Archives

They spent years working on pipelines. Now they deploy water trucks to wind and solar farms and areas with wildfires.

Machinists, electricians and operating engineers at the Mondelez-Nabisco bakery in Portland have new contract agreements.

Local building trade unions have been picketing the colossal construction site to protest out-of-state contractors and subpar wages.

Headquartered in Gladstone, Local 701 brings together 3,600 crane and heavy equipment operators and stationary engineers.

The massive strike was averted when management dropped its anti-union two tier demand and agreed to raise wages 10% over the next four years.

Operating Engineers Local 701 became a sponsor of the Canby Rodeo this year, and set up its popular mobile simulator at the fair.

Crestline, a heavy civil general contractor headquartered in The Dalles, doesn’t have a state-approved apprenticeship program.

The previous general counsel, a management-side labor lawyer appointed by Trump, tried to muzzle Scabby the Rat as soon as he took office.

DCTU—a coalition of six unions—negotiates a collective bargaining agreement that covers about 1,100 City of Portland employees in all.

Construction union reps say the district delays, redacts, and charges exorbitantly for public records they need for wage theft investigations.