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Operating Engineers Local 701
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.
Jobs
Topping-out ceremony at new Multnomah County courthouse
The steel framework on the new courthouse is near completion.
Labor History
Operating Engineers Local 701 celebrates its centennial
Oregon was a very different place when the International Union of Steam Operating Engineers chartered a new local Sept. 18, 1918.
Building our communities
Operating Engineers Local 701 sets up shop at Boring Brewfest
Operating Engineers Local 701 and its affiliated AGC training center set up shop at the inaugural Boring Brewfest fundraiser, bringing a mini-excavator and computerized tower crane simulator for members of the public to try out.
National
Missouri voters trounce ‘right-to-work’
The anti-union law went down by more than 2-1. Oregon unionists, acting in solidarity, were there to lend a hand.
Union Organizing
Tillamook Cheese maintenance techs go non-union
About 250 production workers at the facility continue to be represented by Teamsters Local 58.
Jobs
Shame on Fortis? Or should it be ‘Shame on Facebook?’
Building trades union leaders are irked that some of the work on the Facebook data center in Prineville is going to nonunion subcontractors that pay below area-standard wages and use workers from out of state.
Collective bargaining
Vigor shipyard workers vote to authorize strike
Tired of being disrespected, shipyard workers are demanding a family-friendly work week.
Jobs
OE 701 cries foul at Boeing use of “rat” contractor at Gresham plant
Integrity Machinery Moving is accused of underbidding union contractors while employing nonunion workers and paying them below area-standard wages and benefits.
Union democracy
Metal trades council elects new officers
Jason Joeckel of Laborers Local 737 is the new secretary-treasurer of the Metal Trades Council, which represents workers at the Portland Shipyards.
