infrastructure

by LA/OC Building Trades

LONG BEACH—The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has voted unanimously to extend its port-wide Project Labor Agreement for 10 more years. The PLA with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council brings union labor standards to about $409 million in projects, with more to be added. “This will expand and enhance training […]

by LA/OC Building Trades

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]