Her name is Lena Turek–but on the job site, everyone knows her as “Teaspoon.” The 24-year-old is commanding some of the heaviest equipment on the highway. At 5-years-old, while other kids were ...

Road projects and other construction work is halted across the Tri-Cities and beyond after the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 302 went on strike Tuesday. “Local 302 Eastern ...

COLSTRIP (AP) -- The 224 members of a heavy-equipment operators' union plan to strike at the Rosebud Mine this weekend if a second vote on the mine's final contract offer fails, a union official said ...

Local 49 business agent Nate Sogge, right, guides a student during a hands-on event hosted April 15 by Central Lakes College in partnership with the Operating Engineers Pathway. STAPLES — High school ...

effectively to a student training on a Cat Simulators system. The U.S. Bureau of Labor projects more than 50,800 new heavy equipment operator positions will be added to the U.S. workforce every year ...