Ironworkers 7 Keeping Busy in Maine

Ironworkers Local 7, Carpenters 349, IUPAT DC 35, Operating Engineers 4 and Laborers’ 327 members have been hard at work on a new Roux Institute project at the site of the old B&M Baked Beans plant in Portland. About 75 to 100 Ironworkers have been working on the project for the past year. They recently completed the structural steel on the building and parking garage. The next step will be doing all of the miscellaneous metal work, the glass and curtain wall package.

“We’ve got about another year of work ahead of us on the Roux Institute,” said Local 7 Business Agent Grant Provost.

Ironworkers Local 7 has also finished the structural steel on an affordable housing in Portland thanks to a project labor agreement and funding from the Biden Administration's American Rescue Plan that building trades unions fought for. In addition, Local 7 has upcoming work on the YMCA in Bangor, some rigging in Brewer and other projects. Provost said the union will be working with the Union Construction of Academy to prepare workers for apprenticeships with Local 7 as well as for positions at Cives Steel in Augusta.