Hager Attends Healthcare Summit
For most Americans, including members of the building trades, the rising cost of healthcare is a major concern. Rising rates for health insurance have continued to eat away at building trades members paychecks. Despite many Local unions earning pay raises, the cost of...
C/COBCTC affiliated unions attend Linden Community Apprenticeship Fair
The Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council recently held an apprenticeship fair, targeting underserved members of the Linden community, helping to educate men and women about careers in the skilled trades and the benefits associated with these...
House panel approves Right to Organize Act
The Democratic-controlled House Education and Labor Committee passed the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, the most-comprehensive pro-worker rewrite of U.S. labor law in decades. By a party-line 26-21 vote, the committee sent the law, co-written by top...
Labor Unions Receive High Marks, Poll Finds
Public perception of labor unions in the United States recently reached nearly a 50-year high. A Gallup poll released in August found 64 percent of Americans approve of labor unions. The results are consistent with the results of similar polls conducted in America...
Ohio to Purge Voter Roll
A September 4 ruling by a federal judge blocked the Ohio Democratic Party’s attempt to stop 235,000 names from being removed from the Ohio voter roll. U.S. District Court Judge James Graham said the Ohio Democratic Party did not provide enough evidence to support its...
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