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 The Midwest Economic Policy Institute study found that since Prevailing Wage was repealed, construction wages fell by an average of 8.5 percent in the Hoosier State.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...
Annual D.A.D.’s Day sporting clay shoot scheduled for June 9
The 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 from the event will...
Union Membership up Slightly in Construction Industry
While 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 in the United States...
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