NY Magazine: Democrats have paid a high price by letting unions die
Listen to Dorsey Hager, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council and America’s Workforce Radio host Ed “Flash” Ferenc talk about a NY Magazine article that claims the “Democratic party didn’t merely betray...
Media Taking Notice of Building Trades Majority in Ohio
The mainstream media is finally discovering an approach used by Ohio’s union construction industry for the past few years to create a building trades majority in the Statehouse. A Feb. 25 article in the Columbus Dispatch looked at the fact the building trades are...
Unions Working People’s Day of Action Rally in Columbus Days Before Janus Case
Two days before the United States Supreme Court began hearing a landmark labor case, around 3,000 union members, including an estimated 100 members of the building trades, gathered at noon in the rain outside the Ohio Statehouse for the Working People’s Day of...
Study Shows Indiana’s Move to Repeal Prevailing Wage Backfired
A recent study shows the move to repeal Prevailing Wage in Indiana backfired. The Midwest Economic Policy Institute study found that since Prevailing Wage was repealed, construction wages fell by an average of 8.5 percent in the Hoosier State. Since Prevailing Wage...
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