Building Trades Action

Since construction of Emerson College’s new Hollywood campus for communications and arts students was completed in December 2013, its eye-catching design—a modernistic sculpture in shiny aluminum and glass—has attracted plenty of attention and requests for tours.

After years of recession, construction jobs are expected to start growing in a substantive way in the next few years.

One of the sometimes overlooked facts regarding the legacy of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is that he was a strong supporter of organized labor.

You might call justice and labor educator Mark McDermott a union historian. Or a walking champion for the working class.