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Operating Engineers Local 701
Training the Next Generation
Maybe shoulda Googled ‘rat contractor’?
Crestline, a heavy civil general contractor headquartered in The Dalles, doesn’t have a state-approved apprenticeship program.
Workers Rights
New NLRB acting attorney backs off lawsuit against Scabby the Rat
The previous general counsel, a management-side labor lawyer appointed by Trump, tried to muzzle Scabby the Rat as soon as he took office.
Union democracy
City of Portland union coalition has new leadership
DCTU—a coalition of six unions—negotiates a collective bargaining agreement that covers about 1,100 City of Portland employees in all.
Workers Rights
What’s Portland Public Schools hiding? Possibly wage theft?
Construction union reps say the district delays, redacts, and charges exorbitantly for public records they need for wage theft investigations.
Building our communities
Local unions coordinate food distribution for workers idled by the COVID recession
Some union locals are experiencing 100% unemployment but the food boxes are available to anyone in need, union or not.
Building our communities
Union card gets $1 off beer
Paddy's, Produce Row, Cadillac and three others owned by Portland restaurateur Josh Johnston are offering a discount to patrons who show their union card.
Green Jobs
Green jobs, but not for you
Oregon construction unions say state-subsidized clean energy work is going to nonunion out-of-state firms and out-of-state crews.
Jobs
Rat visits PGE
Portland General Electric’s new lineman training facility is being constructed at least in part by nonunion labor.
Jobs
Roadblock in the Broadway Corridor?
A deal on a community benefits agreement is held up over equity for construction workers.
Worker safety
Pandemic effects ripple across the construction industry
Across the building trades, opinions vary about whether to stay working or stay at home in the midst of a pandemic.
Workers Rights
Rat spotted in Vancouver, Washington
General Labor & Industrial Staffing Services' response to the arrival of a giant inflatable rat? Call the police and threaten legal action.
Training the Next Generation
New construction tech debuts at Local 701’s Canby facility
For a week in early March, journeymen and apprentices in Operating Engineers Local 701 got hands on with a new breed of high-tech heavy equipment.
Jobs
TriMet awards transit project to union-signatory minority contractor
Raimore Construction will be the general contractor on the $60 million construction portion of the Division Transit Project, which will be the largest construction contract awarded to a minority contractor in Oregon history.
Collective bargaining
Raises at Schnitzer scrapyard
At Schnitzer Steel’s North Portland scrap yard, a unit of 123 workers has ratified a new contract.
People
Union racer represents Local 701 training center on the speedway
Every Saturday from April to September, Operating Engineers Local 701 member Cory Garrison races his red 1970 Monte Carlo at Sunset Speedway.
Union democracy
Operating Engineers business manager James Anderson wins second term
In officer elections scheduled for July, all incumbent Local 701 officers ran unopposed and were elected by acclamation.
Jobs
Operating Engineers pickets question Boeing’s Integrity
When Local 701 pickets went up against a non-union equipment operator, members of Iron Workers Local 29 and other unions walked out, teaching apprentices the meaning of solidarity.
Building our communities
Crisis team at Local 701 training center
Operating Engineers Local 701 made its 87-acre training facility available to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department for training.
Jobs
Rat spotted at Pearl District apartments
At Modera Glisan Project, nonunion temps are operating outside elevators instead of skilled Operating Engineers.
Jobs
Union labor is remaking Portland’s Providence Park soccer stadium
The project will employ 120 union members at its peak.
