Bipartisan legislation was introduced to Congress on Feb. 14 that could help save multiemployer pension funds of more than 10 million Americans. U.S. Reps. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) and Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) introduced H.R. 4997, the Give Retirement...
READ MOREREAD MOREListen 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...
READ MOREREAD MORETwo 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...
READ MOREREAD MOREA 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 The Midwest Economic Policy Institute study found that since Prevailing Wage was repealed, construction wages fell by an average of 8.5 percent in the Hoosier State...
READ MOREREAD MOREThe second annual Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council sporting clay shoot is set for early June to benefit diabetes research. Held on June 9 at Black Wing Shooting Center, 3722 Marysville Road in Ostrander, all profits...
READ MOREREAD MOREWhile national and state numbers show no change in union density, the construction industry saw its membership grow by nearly 1 percent last year. According to a recently released annual report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership...
READ MOREREAD MORECheck out Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council Executive Secretary Dorsey Hager and America’s Workforce Radio, host Ed “Flash” Ferenc, as they discuss the upcoming Janus v. American Federation Supreme Court hearing. Oral...
READ MOREREAD MOREPrevailing Wage is one of six items coming under attack by proposed amendments to Ohio’s Constitution. State Rep. John Becker (R-Cincinnati) proposed six amendments to Ohio’s Constitution that would repeal prevailing wage, create both public and...
READ MOREREAD MOREAmerica’s Workforce Radio, host Ed “Flash” Ferenc and Executive Secretary Treasurer for the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council, Dorsey Hager talked about six proposed amendments to Ohio’s constitution. The measures...
READ MOREREAD MOREMassive billion dollar projects will anchor what is expected to be a record setting construction season for members of the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council. Dorsey Hager, Executive Secretary of the Columbus/Central...
READ MOREREAD MOREStudents from The Ohio State University attended an International Masonry Institute (IMI) bricklaying workshop designed to expose them to various masonry techniques. This is the 10th year the IMI has partnered with OSU to promote the masonry...
READ MOREREAD MOREWith the 2017 construction season winding down, the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council held a successful December networking event on Dec. 12 at the Hollywood Casino. Building Trades Council Executive Board members...
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