Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters Archives

Carpenters union dissolves NW regional council

Nov 16, 2023

A new Western States Regional Council of Carpenters spans 12 Western states and totals almost 90,000 union members.

Carpenters international union dissolves eight Northwest locals

Mar 15, 2023

United Brotherhood of Carpenters transferred more than 19,000 members into five newly chartered locals. No explanation was given.

Northwest Carpenters placed in trusteeship

Nov 5, 2021

The council’s top officer Evelyn Shapiro has resigned amid allegations of vote rigging in a Seattle contract ratification vote.

Renewable diesel fuel refinery will be union built and operated

Mar 31, 2021

Construction work on the $1.6 billion project could begin in early 2022 at Port Westward near Clatskanie and employ 800 workers.

Roadblock in the Broadway Corridor?

Jun 17, 2020

A deal on a community benefits agreement is held up over equity for construction workers.

TriMet awards transit project to union-signatory minority contractor

Feb 5, 2020

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.

Boise Cascade busts Carpenters Union campaign in Medford

Jan 15, 2020

A union campaign among 375 workers at a pair of southern Oregon plywood mills ended in a crushing union election defeat.

A sister to lead the Brotherhood

Dec 4, 2018

The region’s largest construction union, 23,000-member Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters, has a new top officer: Evelyn Shapiro. Shapiro, 40, is the first woman ever elected to head a regional council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters in the United States.

Union-backed coalition pushes bold vision for Broadway corridor project

Aug 21, 2018

Redevelopment of the 32-acre downtown site will set the tone for what kind of city Portland will be.

REVOLT OF THE MANAGERS

Apr 19, 2017

At the City of Portland, a group of managers rewrote a project labor agreement template — by taking out the ‘labor’.