Project labor agreements — or PLAs — may not be the flashiest phrase in politics, but they are an important one. At a moment when New Yorkers need good-paying, union jobs, when our city government ...

The country’s unionized construction workforce, largely consisting of workers whose march toward retirement shrinks the overall construction employment pool, has reached a record low at just 10.7%, ...

A new report shows that the total cost of union mechanical projects was 4% less than non-union projects due to productivity gains. The Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) employer ...

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CEO Jack Kocsis Jr. has been with Associated Construction Contractors of New Jersey for nearly four decades. As he describes it, labor relations is at the core of the group’s mission. “Be it education ...

Construction unions negotiate project-by-project to get their workers hired, sometimes securing last-minute promises from developers but other times losing out. Two City Council bills could save ...

Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) leads a noontime rally of union construction workers at Newport Town Square Park in Jersey City on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Reena Rose Sibayan | ...

Kloey Arsenault was 18 and had just graduated from high school when she enrolled in the AFL-CIO’s Union Construction Academy of Maine to train as an ironworker. Her dad is an ironworker and at first ...

Manhattan: Last Saturday, I marched in the annual NYC Labor Day Parade up Fifth Ave. with union construction workers from every building trade working in New York City. I was proud to march with them ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Two Twin Cities housing developers are taking a step to protect non-union construction workers, as they become the first to commit to a worker-created program. Alliance Housing and Hope ...