Building Trades Action

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Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 in favor of putting Binding Arbitration on the November 2026 ballot. Introduced by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis, the Safer Los Angeles County Binding Arbitration proposal would put independent experts in charge of resolving contract disputes for first responders and workers in the […]

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The Nov. 5 general election produced dramatic results for Building Trades union members and families. Most candidates endorsed by the Trades won their races, and important ballot measures for construction also won.

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The California State Building Trades, in partnership with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council and the California Labor Federation, will hold a union women’s conference on March 29-30 in Los Angeles.

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These are the November 5, 2024 General Election Recommendations of the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council.

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When Kaiser Permanente started in 1945, its mission was to serve blue-collar workers and their families with reliable, cost-effective health coverage.

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The “Affordable Housing, Homelessness Solutions and Prevention Now Measure,” it will generate hundreds of millions of dollars each year for union-built affordable housing, renter aid and services for homeless people.

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The 19th annual Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Softball Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 5 featured a record 24 teams from all sectors of the Building Trades in LA and Orange Counties, along with San Bernardino and Riverside.

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WILMINGTON, Calif.—The Building Trades will join thousands of union members for a fun and festive Labor Day event on Monday, Sept. 4: the 44th annual Labor Day Parade, picnic and rally. Each year, Building Trades unions march with banners, floats and family members out in force in this Los Angeles neighborhood near the Port of […]

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A union-led, powerhouse grassroots campaign, years in the making, scored a big win with Los Angeles voters in the Nov. 8 election, offering a reconfiguration of the vexing challenge of affordable housing and homelessness prevention at an unprecedented scale. The United to House LA measure—a transfer tax on property sales over $5 million in the […]

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LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council is proud to release these endorsements for the Nov. election. “This is the biggest slate of endorsements we have ever made,” says Chris Hannan, Council Executive Secretary. “These candidates are the unanimous choice of our local unions. They are pro-jobs and pro-union, and they will […]