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Labor Law Compliance for Non-Union Workers

Construction Business Owner

JULY 29, 2013

Most employers think of the NLRA as the federal law that governs how employers recognize and deal with unions, and with more than 93 percent of the private sector not represented by unions, many construction employers believe this law may not apply to their workforces. Others simply are unfamiliar with this law.'

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Union Employment Deals Construction

Union approval at a record high, despite falling rates

Construction Dive

JANUARY 29, 2024

While the percentage of the workforce that is unionized is declining, “membership is growing in value,” a Gallup report indicated.

Union

Large contractors, union shops better at anti-harassment training

Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

While more than two-thirds of contractors emphasize the importance of inclusion, just 34% of small companies and 42% of non-union shops do so, a new report found.

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Union Contractors

Webinars

Breaking Ground on Better Payment Processes: Strategies for Construction Pros

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Construction trade unions take different approaches to keeping workers safe during pandemic

Construction Dive

APRIL 13, 2020

Some unions are directing members to stop work on projects that are allegedly failing to enforce COVID-19 safety measures. Others leave it up to the workers.

Union

Union Safety Construction

How to Avoid a Commercial Construction Scandal

HardHatChat

MAY 31, 2012

Pursuing those jobs meant we would have had to use shoddy subcontractors or non-union labor where union labor would have been best. And if you’re not in a union town, like Miami, then align yourself with the best vendors. And yet, when we work in union markets like Chicago, Boston, New York and St.

Commercial

Commercial Union Chicago Bidding

Massachusetts union members advised to return to work following strikes

Construction Dive

APRIL 24, 2020

Effective April 21, the work stoppage directive issued by the state's largest industry union earlier this month is no longer in effect for essential projects with acceptable COVID-19 safety protocols.

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Union Massachusetts Safety Industrial

NABTU: Union, wage protections must underlie $1T infrastructure plan

Construction Dive

APRIL 10, 2019

Union leaders and lawmakers at a conference this week called for prevailing wages, project labor agreements and other standards to be included.

Union

Union Infrastructure Agreement Conference

Anna Martin, U-PACT Oregon Lead Instructor AT Ironworkers Local 29 Apprenticeship

Construction Business Owner

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Martin is now a pre-apprenticeship program instructor for Oregon’s Union Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Training program (U-PACT). When she took her journeyman’s exam, she had the highest score of 27 people — and she was the only woman. Her fresh start in construction has led to fresh starts for dozens of other women.

Oregon

Oregon Union Construction

Trending: The Rise of Prefab and Modular Commercial Construction Techniques

HardHatChat

MARCH 27, 2018

Union Considerations: As prefabricated elements and modular components become more sophisticated and more commonplace, will the shops where they are manufactured be unionized?

Commercial

Commercial Union Construction Site

Laborers' Add Paid Maternity Benefit for Women Union Members

ENR Construction

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Members will receive $800 a week in maternity benefits for a minimum of 12 weeks, union General President Brent Booker told the Tradeswomen Build Nations conference in New Orleans.

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Union Conference

Op-Ed: The PRO Act Eliminates Freedom & Privacy in the Workplace

Construction Business Owner

MAY 22, 2020

2474, which aims to boost the number of dues-paying union members at the expense of small and local businesses, workers, entrepreneurs and main street. 6, 2020, the United States House of Representatives, by a vote of 224 to 194, passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, H.R.

United States

United States Union Maine Organization

DC’s $8.8B Union Station upgrade moves forward

Construction Dive

APRIL 4, 2024

The 13-year megaproject would include modernized tracks and platforms, a new train hall and an underground garage.

Union

Let there be light: Union Station Great Hall

BD+C

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Originally completed in 1925, Chicago’s Union Station was designated a landmark in 2002 and listed by AIA Illinois as one of the 200 Illinois Great Places.

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Union Illinois AIA Infrastructure

Built Robotics Partners with Union for Robotics Training

Construction Equipment

MARCH 19, 2020

The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) and Built Robotics announced a multi-year strategic partnership agreement. The partnership will establish a training program to prepare the more than 400,000 IUOE members to oversee and manage robotic equipment, as well as work alongside…

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Union Agreement Equipment Engineering

Spat between union and Connecticut DOT drags FIGG into another bridge controversy

Construction Dive

MARCH 18, 2020

A bill calls for state DOT engineers rather than consultants like FIGG to inspect infrastructure projects while a union in support of it questions the FIU bridge designer's role in the Arrigoni Bridge project as an example.

DOT

DOT Union Connecticut Inspections

TSMC reaches deal with Arizona union on $40B chip factory project

Construction Dive

JANUARY 18, 2024

The semiconductor giant’s plan to import workers from Taiwan sparked strong opposition from the Arizona Building and Construction Trades Council.

Arizona

Arizona Union Deals Plans

Union Square’s first ground-up development in two decades completes

BD+C

JANUARY 20, 2021

300 Grant Avenue, a 70.000-sf mixed-use project, has been completed, making it the first new ground-up development in San Francisco’s Union Square in over 20 years. The project includes approximately 28,100 sf of retail and 41,500 sf of Class A office space.

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Union Retail Office

Women in Construction – As Told By Women

Construction Marketing

MARCH 13, 2018

About unions…. Tamara Rivera, a former carpenter with 24 years of experience and now a council representative for the New York City Council of Carpenters, says that unions have an effect on the types of jobs women are offered: “Women experience construction very differently on the non-union versus the union side.

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Union Construction New York City Las Vegas

NYC unions recruiting more women

Construction Dive

MARCH 27, 2019

Recruiting efforts have reportedly increased women's participation in the city's construction industry by 20% since 2006.

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Union Industrial Construction

Unions call for PLA on $2B Columbus airport terminal

Construction Dive

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A local trade group has asked general contractor Hensel Phelps to commit to paying workers a prevailing wage, a policy the contractor said it has already instituted.

Columbus

Columbus Union Airports Contractors

Study: Union Construction Training Has Economic, Social Benefits on Par With College Degree

ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Union construction apprenticeships deliver similar salary and social outcomes such as marriage and home ownership as four-year college degrees, according to an analysis of 10 years of Department of Labor and Census Bureau data.

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Union Construction

Construction unions call on Massachusetts governor to strengthen COVID-19 protections

Construction Dive

JUNE 9, 2020

The Massachusetts Building Trades Council wants more worker protections regarding coronavirus, such as the right to stop work and not lose out on pay.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Union Construction

Carpenters Union in Southwest Elects Its First Hispanic Leader

ENR Construction

MARCH 9, 2022

undocumented and worked as a union laborer, for encouraging him to become a carpenter. Rodriguez credits his father, an immigrant who arrived in the U.S.

Union

Campaign Contributions Pour Out from Construction Groups, Unions

ENR Construction

OCTOBER 18, 2024

ABC, AGC, ACEC contributions already top their totals for the full 2020 election cycle, while labor union spending is steady or slightly up from past elections.

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Union ACEC ABC AGC

Former Philadelphia Union Local Chief Found Guilty For Second Time

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A birthday dinner former union business manage John Dougherty, and gifts to relatives, were allegedly paid with union funds.

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Union Philadelphia Management

Construction Unions Protest Amazon Projects in Massachusetts

ENR Construction

APRIL 5, 2021

Amazon faces rising opposition from trade unions and other critics as it forges ahead with plans to build a series of giant logistics centers across Massachusetts.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Union Plans Construction

Heavy Metal: Trade groups share playbook for high school summer camp

Construction Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Mechanical contractors on the West Coast developed an “easy button” that other builders and unions can duplicate for their own educational programs.

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Union Education Contractors

White House calls for stronger labor standards

Construction Dive

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The executive order directs federal agencies to prioritize project labor agreements, voluntary union recognition and high-wage standards for manufacturing grants.

Union

Union Housing Agreement

Chicago nonprofit recruits hundreds to apprenticeships

Construction Dive

MARCH 28, 2024

Hire360 targets recruiting minorities and women to the trades, leveraging partnerships with big name developers, contractors and unions.

Chicago

Chicago Union Contractors

Former Philadelphia Local Union Chief Found Guilty For Second Time

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A birthday dinner former union business manage John Dougherty, and gifts to relatives, were allegedly paid with union funds.

Union

Union Philadelphia Management

Strikes in Wisconsin, Seattle snarl jobsites

Construction Dive

JUNE 13, 2024

As construction workers walk off the job for better pay this summer, unions are in a strong position to demand higher wages, according to a labor expert.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Seattle Union Construction

Minnesota School Projects Study Says Unions Increase Safety Without Higher Costs

ENR Construction

JULY 20, 2021

New study says that union construction projects are similar in cost to non-union projects because higher union labor costs are offset by savings in other project components such as materials and safety, but critics point to prevailing wage laws that may have skewed its findings.

Union

Union Safety Minnesota Materials

After stalled labor talks, $2B Columbus airport project receives more funds

Construction Dive

JULY 10, 2024

Negotiations between local unions and contractors did not yield an agreement, but Hensel Phelps and the project owner say they’re dedicated to hiring local, disadvantaged businesses.

Columbus

Columbus Negotiation Union Airports

NY union head: Material prices are construction’s ‘biggest challenge’

Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Felice Farber, new executive director for the Subcontractors Trade Association, gave her diagnosis of the state of diversity and inclusion and construction’s most serious woes.

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Union Materials Construction

Why construction needs more access to opioid overdose meds

Construction Dive

AUGUST 22, 2024

Drugs like fentanyl kill more workers in construction than in any other industry, but some states limit permissions around Narcan and other lifesaving antidotes, says a Nevada union leader.

Nevada

Nevada Union Construction Industrial

Michigan is no longer a ‘right-to-work’ state

Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The repeal, which took effect Tuesday, is the first such reversal since states began implementing laws that prohibit union security agreements in the 1940s.

Michigan

Michigan Union Agreement Security

Unfair labor practice charges on the rise

Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Reports of labor violations and union petitions to the NLRB both rose in the last year. Here’s what construction employers need to know.

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Union Employment Construction

UAW strike to have ripple effect on construction

Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Union representation today is low, but the big wins from guilds and widespread pro-labor sentiment could tip the scales and continue to empower workers.

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Union Construction

Related, NYC union coalition strike deal

Construction Dive

MARCH 8, 2019

The "historic. win-win" agreement ends a period of contentious legal action between the developer of the $25 billion Hudson Yards project and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York.

Union

Union Deals New York Agreement

Former coal-burning power plant becomes Beloit College’s new student union

BD+C

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The Beloit College Powerhouse, the school’s new student union, combines a group of historic buildings that made up the Blackhawk Generating Station (originally built between 1908 and 1947) along with a new field house addition.

Union

Union Architecture Sustainability Equipment

OSHA proposes change to walkaround rule

Construction Dive

AUGUST 31, 2023

The proposal would allow union officials or other employee advocates to join in jobsite safety inspections.

OSHA

OSHA Union Inspections Safety

Chicago’s Union Station Tower Uses First 80-ksi Steel Sections in the US

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 3, 2020

MKA specifies new ArcelorMittal steel products to create larger upper-level spaces in the 51-story tower and deal with site issues near Chicago Union Station.

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Union Chicago US Deals

Architect Drops Union Bid, But Sector Organizing Continues

ENR Construction

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Historic petition to unionize in architecture hits snag on eve of vote by NY firm SHoP, but Architectural Workers United isn't done with sector organizing, says Architectural Record, ENR's sister publication.

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Union Organization Bidding Architecture

Ironworkers Union Earns Third-Party Accreditation for Safety Courses

ENR Construction

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

International Accreditation Services has certified two programs and union leaders are seeking certification for a third.

Union

Union Certification Safety

Labor Law Compliance for Non-Union Workers

Union approval at a record high, despite falling rates

Webinars

Trending Sources

Large contractors, union shops better at anti-harassment training

Webinars

Construction trade unions take different approaches to keeping workers safe during pandemic

How to Avoid a Commercial Construction Scandal

Massachusetts union members advised to return to work following strikes

NABTU: Union, wage protections must underlie $1T infrastructure plan

Anna Martin, U-PACT Oregon Lead Instructor AT Ironworkers Local 29 Apprenticeship

Trending: The Rise of Prefab and Modular Commercial Construction Techniques

Laborers' Add Paid Maternity Benefit for Women Union Members

Op-Ed: The PRO Act Eliminates Freedom & Privacy in the Workplace

DC’s $8.8B Union Station upgrade moves forward

Let there be light: Union Station Great Hall

Built Robotics Partners with Union for Robotics Training

Spat between union and Connecticut DOT drags FIGG into another bridge controversy

TSMC reaches deal with Arizona union on $40B chip factory project

Union Square’s first ground-up development in two decades completes

Women in Construction – As Told By Women

NYC unions recruiting more women

Unions call for PLA on $2B Columbus airport terminal

Study: Union Construction Training Has Economic, Social Benefits on Par With College Degree

Construction unions call on Massachusetts governor to strengthen COVID-19 protections

Carpenters Union in Southwest Elects Its First Hispanic Leader

Campaign Contributions Pour Out from Construction Groups, Unions

Former Philadelphia Union Local Chief Found Guilty For Second Time

Construction Unions Protest Amazon Projects in Massachusetts

Heavy Metal: Trade groups share playbook for high school summer camp

White House calls for stronger labor standards

Chicago nonprofit recruits hundreds to apprenticeships

Former Philadelphia Local Union Chief Found Guilty For Second Time

Strikes in Wisconsin, Seattle snarl jobsites

Minnesota School Projects Study Says Unions Increase Safety Without Higher Costs

After stalled labor talks, $2B Columbus airport project receives more funds

NY union head: Material prices are construction’s ‘biggest challenge’

Why construction needs more access to opioid overdose meds

Michigan is no longer a ‘right-to-work’ state

Unfair labor practice charges on the rise

UAW strike to have ripple effect on construction

Related, NYC union coalition strike deal

Former coal-burning power plant becomes Beloit College’s new student union

OSHA proposes change to walkaround rule

Chicago’s Union Station Tower Uses First 80-ksi Steel Sections in the US

Architect Drops Union Bid, But Sector Organizing Continues

Ironworkers Union Earns Third-Party Accreditation for Safety Courses

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