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Roofers Local 49
Training the Next Generation
Local 49 once again takes ‘Best in West’ roofing title
For the third time in four years, a Roofers Local 49 apprentice took first place at the regional skills competition.
Collective bargaining
Roofers win contract increases totaling $10.28
The first-year increase brought the hourly wage for a journeyman roofer to $47.01 an hour plus $23.83 an hour for fringe benefits.
Building our communities
Union means looking after one another
Union volunteers at Roofers Local 49 replaced the roof of the home of the widow of a lifelong member.
Training the Next Generation
A Roofers Local 49 apprentice is the best in the West … again
Held in Livermore, California, the competition showcased skills in roofing, plus a math test, tool identification and safety test.
Building our communities
Roofers and Laborers ride to the rescue of a Mounted Explorer post
Union volunteers from Roofers Local 49 and Laborers Local 737 saved a Gresham hay barn for Mounted Explorer Post 686 in September.
Training the Next Generation
A Local 49 roofer at the top of his trade
Jose Parra Pineda, a fourth-year apprentice in Roofers Local 49, took first place in a national apprentice competition May 13-15 in Minnesota.
Training the Next Generation
Roofers compete
An apprentice member of Roofers Local 49 is advancing to the national championship.
People
Kevin Landreth, union organizer
Everywhere he goes, Kevin Landreth scans for signs of roofers at work. If they’re non-union, he wants to have a word with them.
Training the Next Generation
Roofers Local 49 apprentice declared # 1 in national competition
Dylan Butler went to the union's national event in St. Louis after winning the West Coast apprentice competition.
People
Roofer to professor, and back again
Local 49’s new organizer Matt Lambert is ready to scream the union gospel from the rooftops.
Union democracy
New business manager at Roofers Local 49
On Travis Hopkins' agenda: hiring a new organizer, growing the workforce, and securing work in the renewable sector.
Union democracy
Russ Garnett re-elected at Roofers Local 49
Garnett, 56, has served as business agent since 2011, during what has been a boom time in the local construction industry.
Collective bargaining
Wages rise $4.96 an hour in new Roofers contract
Journeyman roofers in Local 49 will earn a $37.73 wage as of July 1, plus $19.23 in fringe benefits like health and pension.
Union democracy
Roofers Local 49 re-elects Russ Garnett to third term
Garnett ran unopposed for a third term as business manager.
Building our communities
Building Trades’ conservation project helps Boy Scouts
Volunteers from Roofers Local 49 and Laborers Local 737 teamed with the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance to construct a shooting sports complex.
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.
Culture
West Coast roofers compete
Female apprentice Suzanne Young of Local 49 took first place in 7th annual West Coast Roofers Apprenticeship Competition.
Culture
Women in the Trades
Nationally, women have never accounted for more than 3 percent of building trades workers. We asked three women building trades workers to share their stories.
People
New apprenticeship coordinator at Roofers Local 49
Joel Gonzalez succeeds Clint Mapes as apprenticeship director at the Roofers Training Center.
