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Strikes are way up. Union approval is at a 57-year high. And yet as a percent of the workforce unions are at the lowest level since the '20s.

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By Don McIntosh When Robert Camarillo was chosen to head the Oregon Building Trades Council in 2018, taking the construction union agenda to the state capitol was a one-person operation. Last year, reinforcements arrived: IBEW Local 48 president Wayne Chow. Wayne Chow Chow, 43, brings a unique perspective to the job, as someone who suffered wage theft in the years before he found his union. Born and raised in Toronto, Chow worked as a motorcycle mechanic when he moved to Portland in 2000, but entered an electrical apprenticeship on the encouragement of his then father-in-law. Unfortunately fo...

Oregon Building Trades leader Robert Camarillo welcomes union members to the Capitol Feb. 19, 2020. Robert Camarillo, executive secretary of the Oregon Building Trades Council, has been named to the 32-member Interstate Bridge Replacement Community Advisory Group (CAG). The bi-state group will develop recommendations for replacing the aging I-5 bridge that spans the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Governors and legislative leaders in both states directed their respective Transportation Departments to launch the program to lead the work. A previous version o...

At the Wheatridge facility south of Boardman, a crane operated by a member of IUOE Local 701 lifts a rotor to be attached by members of Iron Workers and Laborers atop a 290-foot tower. At right in the distance is PGE’s Boardman Coal Plant, which closed permanently in October. (Photos courtesy PGE) By Don McIntosh Unlike other recent Northeast Oregon renewable energy projects, which relied on nonunion out-of-state workers, the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility about 15 miles south of Boardman employed members of Iron Workers Local 29, Laborers Local 737 and Operating Engineers Local 701. ...