Category: Building Trades

July 29, 2015 By AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Washington, DC –  On July 21, 2015 the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010,

July 28, 2015 By NYS Assembly Walter T. Mosley [D-57th District] LaborPress Op-ed As this year’s legislative session drew to a close, concern over what to do with the controversial

July 27, 2015 By James T. Kunz Jr., IUOE Local 66 Business Manager Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – From mining in Hazleton, to steel in Pittsburgh, to high-tech corridors, Pennsylvania's labor force

July 22, 2015 By Dennis L. Martire, Vice President and Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager of the Laborers' International Union of North America Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania – Across Pennsylvania, development of the shale

July 21, 2015 By Richard Trumka Washington, DC — Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka July 16, 2015 on President Obama’s speech to the NAACP: President Obama took a powerful

July 20, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco Queens, NY — Thoughts of solar energy most probably invoke images of shiny flat panels neatly arrayed across flat open fields or expansive urban rooftops. But

July 20, 2015 By John Quinn, LaborPress USA Seattle, Washington –  The 60 affiliated local trade unions of the Washington State Building & Construction Trades Council, have announced support for

July 20, 2015 By Diane Meade Boston, Massachusetts — Leaders of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) System Council T-6 have announced that Verizon employees in Massachusetts and Rhode

July 16, 2015 By Stephanie West New York, NY – The New York Building Congress has announced it is launching a competition inviting the City’s leading architects, engineers, and construction