Operating Engineers Local 701 Archives

Picketing outside the privately owned Coffin Butte landfill, they’re in a fight against a $13.5 billion a year Goliath.

Wages will range from $44.41 to $52.36 an hour under the new four-year contract with Operating Engineers Local 701.

Republic Services, which operates the Coffin Butte landfill, cancels bargaining at the last minute and gave non-union workers a raise.

Building trades union officials from UA Local 290 and Operating Engineers Local 701 were among those testifying against the ordinance.

Operating Engineers Local 701 business manager Jim Anderson ran unopposed for re-election this year, the second time in a row.

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.