Posts tagged IBEW Local 48

    News Article ● Labor Unions

    Labor unions pull support of Portland City Councilor Mitch Green over construction project tensions

    July 9, 2026 // "With the Bull Run filtration plant in particular, which kind of started this tension, I raised the alarm that the water bonds we were going to have to issue for that plant are going to set ratepayers on a path that are going to see their water bill double," Green told KGW. The cost of building the filtration plant in east Multnomah County has skyrocketed from $500 million in estimates circa 2017 to $2.56 billion as of earlier this year. Right now, the way the city expects to pay for it is by increasing residential water rates between 8% and 10% each year for five years.

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    News Article ● Unions

    Biden in Portland: ‘Union workers are the best’

    May 6, 2022 // After the hangar event, Biden attended a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the Portland Yacht Club, where he spoke for about 30 minutes before returning to the airport to depart for Seattle.

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    Strike

    Portland’s District Council of Trade Unions announces plans to strike

    January 27, 2022 // The president of the District Council of Trade Unions announced Thursday the labor coalition, which represents roughly 16% of the Portland city workforce, will soon go on strike over wages.

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