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Painters Local 10
International
Local unions resolve to defend immigrants
AFT Local 111, Painters Local 10, IATSE Local 28 and Ironworkers Local 29 have passed resolutions pledging to mobilize members.
Labor History
Painters Local 10 is turning 125
It began in 1899, when 44 painters and wallpaper hangers met at the Portland hall of a fraternal order called the Improved Order of Red Men.
Training the Next Generation
JobCorps crew leaves mark on Oregon Labor Center
Oregon AFL-CIO’s Portland headquarters got a spruce-up in early April thanks to a paint crew from Timber Lake Job Corps in Estacada.
Collective bargaining
Trades workers ratify contract at Home Forward
The three-year contract covers 56 trades workers. It raises starting pay $9 an hour on average and adds new safety provisions.
Collective bargaining
Specialty Finishes shipyard painters win raises in first union contract
Newly unionized shipyard painters in Portland and Seattle will get better health insurance and raises totaling $4.06 an hour over 3 years.
Collective bargaining
Painters agreement raises compensation $9.86 over three years
The deal with wall and ceiling contractors aligns with the one ratified in May with the larger Signatory Painting Contractors Organization.
Collective bargaining
Painters win $9.66 over three years in new contract
For the second time in a row, Painters Local 10 obtained historic pay raises for members. Readiness to strike made all the difference.
Collective bargaining
Strike averted as Painters vote on new offer
Facing a May 1 strike date, painting contractors came back to the table proposing $9.66 in raises over three years.
Collective bargaining
Painters set May 1 strike date
About 320 commercial, industrial and bridge painters may strike May 1 if they don’t reach agreement with union-signatory contractors.
Union democracy
Painters Local 10 calls for freedom for Mumia
Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former member of the Black Panther Party, was a radio journalist who had exposed police abuses in Philadelphia.
Union Organizing
Seattle shipyard painters unionize on the heels of Portland election
Specialty Finishes workers in both cities are now represented by Painters Local 10, which is preparing to bargain a first contract.
Union Organizing
Shipyard painters go union
A dozen workers who paint vessels on Swan Island in Portland have unionized, increasing the union density at the Vigor Industrial shipyard.
Union Organizing
Contracted painters look to unionize at Vigor shipyard
Painters Local 10 has asked for an election to represent workers employed by Specialty Finishes, located at Portland’s Vigor Marine shipyard.
Collective bargaining
Painters Local 10 wins wage increases of up to $4.50
The first contract to be negotiated since members regained the right to strike contains the biggest raises in a generation.
Collective bargaining
Painters turn down $2.94 in raises, return to bargaining
A day after the lopsided vote to reject SPCO's offer, a competing contractor group offered $4.30 an hour over the same time frame.
Collective bargaining
Painters strikes end with major wage wins
After weeks of escalating strike action, Painters Local 10 reached a deal that if ratified will raise compensation by $3.50 to $4 an hour.
Collective bargaining
Painters pickets continue
The pickets are protesting contractors' failure to provide information that would justify their refusal to offer more than a 25¢ raise.
Union democracy
New leadership at Painters Local 10
Local 10’s new president, Mark Fleming, is a 38-year member of IUPAT who has worked for Thompson Metal Fab since 1998.
Collective bargaining
At Portland-area construction sites, union painters are primed for ‘Summer of Chaos’
Local Painters union members have been falling behind for a generation. They’re not gonna take it any more.
Collective bargaining
Wages rise over $3 an hour in new Painters contracts
The July 1 raises are the culmination of a ready-to-strike strategy the union set in motion in 2017.
