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States Act to Fill Construction Jobs
Across the country construction is booming, 35 states reported an increase from last year in construction jobs. 26 of those states also reported increases just in the last month. While this boom is...
Stardust Diner Reaches Settlement with Union
The singing servers at one of New York City’s most popular tourist destinations, Ellen’s Stardust Diner, won a huge labor victory this week. A year after the wait staff unionized with the...
Robots Taking Away Construction Jobs
Robots and technology are taking over many industries and the building trades may be the next industry to feel their effect. Of course, that means union tradesmen will also feel the effects. We...
Albany: $100K Jobs Must Have Training
In a Press Release from the Carpenters Union, on July 3, the City of Albany passed Ordinance 32.62.17 that requires all construction contractors and subcontractors – working on projects valued...
Residential Union Rates
IBEW Local 48 has a unique idea for competing in the residential construction market.
Whose Screwed by the Construction Boom?
A new study shows the union advantage in the Building Trades.
The $1 Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Con
After Trump drained the swamp, he appointed George W. Bush’s Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to be his Transportation Secretary. He once again broke a campaign promise. Trump said that he would not...
No Deal without a Union Deal
In my neck of the woods, I went down to a Town Hall meeting and urged the Board to delay a major building project because it lacked a Project Labor Agreement. The names and faces may be different if...
Did the LA Trades drop the ball?
Thanks to trades unions failing to organize small projects and immigrants, the trades has lost ground in the Los Angeles construction industry. This has allowed a generation of immigrants to learn...
PLA's Killed in Wisconsin
Knock, Knock. Who's There? Aren't ya. Arent ya who? Aren't you glad that as a building trades union member you vote Republican.