FAQs
Visit the Operating Engineers Local 49 Health and Welfare Fund website dedicated to helping you understand how to use your health and welfare benefits.
Visit the Local 49 Training Fund website www.local49training.org for more information on training and the apprenticeship program.
Yes. Click here to find out more information and apply for Local 49’s Scholarship.
We’d be happy to help you. Click here to contact Local 49’s Organizing Director.
Click here to see a list of monthly membership meetings and times.
Click here to go to our Find my Agent page where there is a map to help you find who your business agent is.
Click here to go to the officer’s page.
Our Main Office is in Minneapolis:
2829 Anthony Lane South, Minneapolis, MN 55418
(612) 788-9441
(800) 788-9441
If you need one of the offices outside the Twin Cities metro area, click for a listing of those office locations.
NEWS
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June8
Local 49 Business Manager Interview with Linder Farm Radio Network
Local 49 Business Manager Jason George spoke on Linder Farm Radio Network this morning and shared his thoughts on the Enbridge Line 3 protest activity that has occurred this week….
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June2
Local 49 Hosts Hands-On Heavy Equipment Training Event for High School Students Across the State
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Fall enrollment is now open for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 49‘s Operating Engineers Career Pathway program, who recently hosted high school students from across…
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May24
Message from Business Manager Jason George on the Marathon Refinery issue
We have seen Marathon Refinery in St. Paul Park kick out local contractors with skilled union tradesmen and women and replace them with out of state contractors in the last…
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May20
2021 Local 49 Scholarship Recipients
Recipients of a Scholarship award from Local 49 were announced at the General Membership Meeting on May 19, 2021. Ten grants of $1,000.00 each were awarded this year and Local…
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May19
Face Covering Guidelines Update
Following the changes to Minnesota’s statewide mask requirement late last week Local 49 officers have met and agreed to adjust the mask requirements as follows: Masks will continue to be required…
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May10
Union Leaders, Health & Safety Personnel and Local Leaders Urge Bipartisan Action to Pass Refinery Safety Bill
Local 49 Business Manager Jason George, alongside workers and other community leaders, spoke to the media today urging the legislature to pass apprenticeship requirements for contractors working in Minnesota’s oil…
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