February 22, 2023
by LA/OC Building Trades
GARDEN GROVE—A $277 million, four-star Nickelodeon resort hotel will build with a Community Workforce Agreement. In a major victory for the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, the Garden Grove City Council added a requirement to adopt the agreement when it approved the project by unanimous vote September 13, 2022. The city, directly […]
September 27, 2022
by LA/OC Building Trades
SACRAMENTO—The State Building & Construction Trades Council of California (SBCTC) has long championed the use of “skilled and trained” labor requirements as a way of improving the lives of workers in the residential construction industry. Despite attempts by a few legislators to weaken this effort, momentum continues to build for “skilled and trained” language being […]
May 24, 2022
by LA/OC Building Trades
A game-changing housing measure on the Los Angeles city ballot is on the way to success. A coalition of community groups and unions, including the Building Trades, is spearheading the measure, called United to House LA. On May 2, the coalition turned in to the LA City Clerk about 30 percent more signatures than needed […]
February 10, 2022
by LA/OC Building Trades
When school campuses closed due to Coronavirus, construction picked up the pace. It’s hard to see the silver lining in the pandemic shutdowns across the schools of Los Angeles Unified School District, but there was one. When students went home in March 2020, administrators worked with contractors to move schedules forward, to reconstruct large portions […]
January 15, 2022
by LA/OC Building Trades
The new Omicron wave of the pandemic Covid makes vaccination and safety more important than ever. Following new guidelines will help to keep skilled construction workers safely on the job. “In 2020 and 2021, working together, we were able to keep construction sites open,” said Chris Hannan, Executive Secretary of the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building […]
September 3, 2021
by LA/OC Building Trades
WESTMINSTER, CA—Local Building Trades members will have the opportunity to work on a major Midway City Sanitary District project, thanks to an agreement that could mean more union Trades jobs in the future. The district’s Board of Directors on April 20 unanimously approved a Community Workforce Agreement with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction […]
September 3, 2021
by LA/OC Building Trades
WASHINGTON, DC—The Building Trades achieved important victories in the first eight months of the Biden Administration. A $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill has passed the Senate and another for $3.5 trillion may be coming. Those were major speaking points of Building Trades and government leaders at the 2021 Legislative Conference of North America’s Building Trades Unions […]
January 16, 2020
by LA/OC Building Trades
LONG BEACH—It’s the season for Californians to reflect on 2019 as we look ahead with hope to the opportunities of 2020. This past year has shown the resilience of the working families who form the backbone of our great state, and energy is the fundamental building block that powers us all. California Resources Corporation (CRC), […]
June 22, 2018
by LA/OC Building Trades
LOS ANGELES—Women in the Building Trades are still the exception, a small minority despite a rich history, decades of slow gains and strong current outreach. The goal of including more women in the opportunity, high wages and lifelong benefits of union construction careers is now motivated by a need to hedge against an aging workforce—especially in the midst of Southern California’s development boom, which will include […]
January 3, 2018
by LA/OC Building Trades
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, which is expected to both improve output and be more environmentally friendly than the current plant, is expected […]
June 5, 2014
by LA/OC Building Trades
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.