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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.
There's No Infrastructure Plan
Trump has been talking lately to the Building Trades so we put together some bullet points on how Trump is going to screw them over: 12 weeks in, still no infrastructure plan, because he...
Trump plays the Building Trades
In January, handpicked conservative leaders from some of the Building Trades Unions sat down with Trump. It was rumored that they discussed his $1 Trillion infrastructure plan. Months later, we still...
Our Infrastructure Wish List
One of Trump’s biggest promises on the campaign trail was that he was going to use his experience as a builder to fix our nations infrastructure problems. In the middle of January, he met...
Building Union on the Rise
In recent years, construction in New York City has skyrocketed. As more projects started breaking ground, more of these jobs started to go to non-union companies. Now a report from Crain...
Protect the Project Labor Agreement
During the 2016 Presidential Election season, union leadership made concerted efforts to educate their members. They listed the issues at hand, brought up the numerous reasons why elections on all...
Green jobs off the coast of Rhode Island
Recently, labor leaders from Long Island joined with labor leaders from Rhode Island to check out the Deepwater Wind project. This offshore wind farm is a first of its kind in the United States...
Proving apprenticeship graduation rates
When elected officials start talking about student debt and college, they often mention apprenticeship programs. These programs are a sort of a working college for the men and women who are...