The Daily Illini

Union workers protest construction company outside high-rise project

As construction work continued on a future 16-story high-rise apartment at 201 E. Green St. Wednesday afternoon, a small group of union members from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ...
Yahoo

A Construction Workers Union Faces Its Most Divisive Issue: Immigration

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jimmy Williams, general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, poses for a portrait at the IUPAT ...
Mainebiz

Building the construction workforce: A growing suite of training opportunities address critical shortage of workers

The Union Construction Academy is one of a growing suite of construction workforce development programs looking to address workforce shortages. PHOTO / COURTESY OF MAINE AFL-CIO Kloey Arsenault was 18 ...
The Lowell Sun

Editorial: Union apprentice mandate would help all in trades

Virtually every public construction project in Massachusetts would be required to use apprentices under a bill that union supporters say will provide a sustaining stream of trained professionals into ...
Mainebiz

Union Construction Academy graduates first Women in the Trades cohort

The Union Construction Academy of Maine recently graduated its first cohort in the Women in the Trades program. The ceremony for women pre-apprentices graduating from the program featured Laura ...