by LA/OC Building Trades

These sports landmarks are being built by the skilled and trained union members of the 48 local unions and district councils that make up the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council. On March 7, the Intuit Dome celebrated its topping out. As the traditional steel beam, signed by all on site and decorated […]

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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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SACRAMENTO—The Building Trades have joined a major coalition seeking to win more than $1 billion in clean energy funding from the federal government.  On April 7, the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems (ARCHES) submitted its application to the United States Department of Energy as part of the Biden Administration’s Hydrogen Earth Shot Challenge. ARCHES is […]

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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 […]

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WASHINGTON, DC—Apprenticeship programs co-sponsored by unions and contractors outperform non-union training programs in recruiting and retaining women and racial minorities, a new study says. North America’s Building Trades Unions held its first Opportunity Pipeline Forum Jan. 17 in Washington, D.C. to present “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in the Construction Trades,” a data-based evaluation of 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 […]

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After signing on with the Building Trades for a major project in Tarzana, the Cedars-Sinai health care organization is adding another at its flagship location in mid-city Los Angeles. The new Seismic Upgrade Wing will be built under a Project Labor Agreement with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council. Council Executive Secretary […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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BUENA PARK—After rank-and-file union members took the podium in their orange working vests to explain the value of  Community Workforce Agreements for themselves, their communities and future generations of craftspeople, the Buena Park City Council on March 8 unanimously approved that city’s first ongoing partnership with the Building Trades. Riding a rising wave of pro-union sentiment […]

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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 […]

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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 […]