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Portland Metal Trades Council
Collective bargaining
Dispute looms at Portland and Seattle shipyards
Nine unions represent around 800 workers at Vigor’s Portland and Seattle shipyards through the AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department.
Workers Rights
Vigor pays to restore spray-painted vehicles
In not one but two overspray incidents, paint blown by the wind stuck to the vehicles of hundreds of shipyard workers.
Union Organizing
Full Stack goes ‘full silent’
The Portland Metal Trades thought they had a deal. Then they were ghosted by the startup manufacturer of modular housing.
Collective bargaining
Metal Trades kicks off bargaining at Vigor shipyards
For the second time in a row, union leaders will be bargaining with a new CEO and new ownership at shipyards in Portland and Seattle.
Union Organizing
Full Stack Modular signs union neutrality deal
A Portland factory making modular housing sections in the Swan Island Industrial Area has committed to a union neutrality agreement.
Workers Rights
Shipyard workers in an uproar over paint damage to cars
An improperly contained cruise ship paint job resulted in paint particles floating almost a half-mile to the employee parking lot.
Collective bargaining
Shipyard workers approve contract by 70%
Wages rise $3.95 an hour under the new agreement, which covers nearly 1,000 metal trades workers at Portland and Seattle shipyards.
Collective bargaining
For shipyard workers, contract … or strike
Union shipyard workers in Portland and Seattle will decide April 28 whether to approve a new tentative agreement with employer Vigor Marine.
Collective bargaining
Shipyard workers vote again to authorize strike
The Metal Trades Council is planning a community support rally at the Portland shipyard’s main gate at 9:30 a.m. April 9.
Collective bargaining
Shipyard workers reject tentative agreement
Metal trades unions will hold a second strike vote after 900 Portland and Seattle shipyard workers rejected a deal with Vigor Marine.
Collective bargaining
Metal Trades unions ask shipyard owner: ‘Where’s the love?’
Unions and Vigor Marine remain far apart in bargaining for a contract representing several hundred workers at Portland and Seattle shipyards.
Union democracy
Metal Trades Council selects leadership
Delegates to the Metal Trades Council of Portland and Vicinity held a Jan. 10 election to name its top officers.
Collective bargaining
Workers could strike at shipyards in Portland and Seattle
By over 95%, Portland and Seattle shipyard workers voted to authorize a strike if the AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department can’t get a contract.
Collective bargaining
Strike averted at Vigor shipyards
A new four-year contract will raise wages $4.35 an hour.
Collective bargaining
Shipyard workers reject Vigor contract offer
More than 1,000 employees in Portland and Puget Sound have been working under the terms of an extended master collective bargaining agreement that expired Sept. 1, 2017.
Collective bargaining
Vigor shipyard workers vote to extend contract to Sept. 1
The extension will give the sides more time to address problems with multi-employer pension plans.
Collective bargaining
Shipyard workers at Cascade General ratify new contract
It was the third contract vote for members of the Portland Metal Trades at Vigor shipyard
Collective bargaining
Swan Island shipyard workers reject contract offers
The unions also win an unfair labor practice charge at Vigor Shipyard
Jobs
Vigor christens new drydock at Portland’s Swan Island shipyard
The 960-foot Chinese-built vessel is the largest floating drydock in North America
People
Machinists, Metal Trades, DCU have void to fill with Scott Lucy retirement
Lucy has been with the Machinists for 35 years.
