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Energy Industry and Building Trades Partner for Good Jobs

January 11, 2019

LONG BEACH—As the new year begins, and newly elected officials begin their duty of governing, we must help shape policy to ensure our elected…

Trades Say No to Prop. 6

September 28, 2018

UNION STATION, LOS ANGELES—The battle to defend SB 1 is on. It generates thousands of Building Trades jobs yearly on road and transit work. But it’s under attack by Prop. 6 on the Nov. 6 ballot. 

Building Trades members, leaders … Read more

TRADES OPEN ANAHEIM NORTH

January 8, 2018

ANAHEIM—The Anaheim Convention Center enjoyed a double celebration Sept. 26, for the grand opening of its new $190 million ACC North building, and the ACC’s 50th anniversary.
The ACC North expansion created 1,860 Trades jobs under an all-union Project Labor … Read more

All-Union Pasadena Plant Powers Up

January 3, 2018

PASADENA—The Glenarm Power Plant repowering, a modernization project that’s being built under an all-union Project Labor Agreement with the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, is now entering the home stretch in Pasadena.

The project, … Read more

Women in Trades Rally at 5th Annual Event

October 19, 2015

Inside the “Women Building the Nation” conference at the Gateway Sheraton LAX May 1, the excitement was contagious.

Building Trades Win $700 Million Paramount PLA

June 5, 2014

Pending city approval and environmental review, a comprehensive $700 million upgrade to Paramount Pictures’ famous Hollywood lot will employ several thousand members of Building Trades local affiliated unions.