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Vigor Industrial
Jobs
Vigor to shut down former Oregon Iron Works
When Vigor shutters its fabrication ops later this year, 100 ironworkers, boilermakers, and electricians will lose their jobs.
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.
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.
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
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.
Jobs
Union employer Vigor Industrial sold to private equity firms
As part of the deal, Vigor will merge with an 800-employee ship repair and maintenance company in Norfolk, Virginia.
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.
Jobs
New submarine-hunting drone is union built in Oregon
The drone sub is made by members of Iron Workers Shopmen’s Local 516 and IBEW Local 48.
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
Workers Rights
Shipyard workers picket smoking ban
Shipyard workers at six Vigor worksites protest imposition of smoking ban without consulting union
Jobs
Reinvigorating Portland’s shipyard: Vigor’s massive new dry dock could mean hundreds of jobs
13 years after selling America’s largest floating dry dock, Vigor bringing one back to Portland
Jobs
Oregon Iron Works to merge with Vigor Industrial
Union leaders are optimistic about prospects for job growth
