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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...
Adding to the Chicagoland Skyline
This past weekend I had the chance to check-in with IBEW Hour Power at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 39th Convention in St. Louis. Not to oversimplify their mission, but...
Making friends with enviros
You know how they say politics makes strange bedfellows? Well, sometimes the environment does, too.Leaders from the United Steelworkers, the Sierra Club, the Utility Workers Union and the National...
Trades getting good press
Thousands of the best-paid blue-collar jobs in the Big Apple are opening up, starting with a huge union recruitment drive for carpenters and laborers.And the blue-collar compensation, with benefits...
Blue collar millennials
Washington Mayancela decided he wanted his life to be degree free.He joins legions of well-schooled millennials bucking the trend of college, taking often dirty but well-paid blue-collar jobs.Coming...