
Massachusetts Building Trades Unions
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Massachusetts Building Trades Unions - representing 75,000 skilled craft professionals in Massachusetts.
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Thank you to the legislators who attended this morning's Merrimack Valley Building Trades Council legislative breakfast to discuss improving the MA construction industry Jamie Eldridge State Senator Barry Finegold Vanna Howard Rodney Elliott



In 2023, Governor Maura Healey expanded eligibility for the Registered Apprenticeship Tax Credit. Fast forward to tax-year 2024: we've approved $465,600 in credits to employers who hired 97 apprentices—more than double the number from previous years!


This mornings MA Building Trades legislative breakfast to talk about #NABTU2025 priorities with the Mass delegation. PLAs, Apprenticeship, Prevailing Wages & more. Ed Markey Rep. Stephen F. Lynch Lori Trahan Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧 Seth Moulton


The Case for Project Labor Agreements Governor Maura Healey Healey said "This means ensuring that contractors have a trained & ready workforce to turn to & a plan for meeting deadlines staying within budget & keeping everyone safe" businesswest.com/blog/governors… The Building Trades


Two ibew 223 Union Brothers were re-elected in yesterday's Town Elections in Somerset. Joe Bednarik to the Water & Sewer Commission and Billy Raposa to the Planning Board. Congratulations Brothers & thanks for stepping up Massachusetts AFL-CIO GSM Labor Council heraldnews.com/story/news/pol…

Just landed from a great week with LiUNA OVSSR—only to get hit with a gut punch: US Department of the Interior canceled the Empire Offshore Wind Project by Equinor Wind US. A FULLY funded, FULLY permitted job—GONE! Dozens of Laborers lost a good #union paycheck. This isn’t what we voted for. #DTC

PLAs increased bid competition by an average of 14%, with each additional bid increasing the likelihood that projects would be awarded below their official engineer’s estimates by 6% constructiondive.com/news/plas-illi… The Building Trades State House News Mass. Municipal Assn

Thanks 2 the legislature & AG Andrea Joy Campbell Campbell fighting 4 these workers justice will be done. We call on the developer Preservation of Affordable Housing & their contractor Dellbrook|JKS to pay these workers the wages they deserve said Massachusetts Building Trades Unions Prez Frank Callahan State House News



This has 2 stop Vineyard Wind created 1,380 union jobs since starting. Trump's ban also caused Prysmian to cancel a $780 Million Undersea Cable Manufacturing Plant (with a PLA) in Somerset that would've created 150 good paying manufacturing jobs bostonglobe.com/2025/05/05/nat… The Building Trades

The Recovery Week program is "aimed at breaking stigma, promoting access to care and building a jobsite culture that values emotional and psychological safety as much as physical safety" BldgTrdEmplyrAssoc The Building Trades Mass General Brigham Turner Construction enr.com/articles/60719…

Frank Callahan of Mass. Building Trades Unions said apprenticeship & labor provisions “highlight @MassGovernorHealey’s commitment to ensuring that workers who build and service these technologies for all of us enjoy good paying careers bostonglobe.com/2025/05/13/sci… via The Boston Globe

Boston strikes deal opening union job opportunities for Madison Park grads The ripple effects of this PLA will be felt 4 decades creating stable pathways to home ownership to save for the future & building stronger safer communities The Building Trades bostonherald.com/2025/05/13/bos…

Boston initiative connects vocational student... cbsnews.com/boston/video/b… via CBS News Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 The Building Trades Massachusetts AFL-CIO

#Union members learning the issues & strategies to be more effective in public meetings. #UnionPower is stronger when more members get involved The Building Trades



Today, Brockton and Southeast MA Bldg Trades met reps and senators from the two regions to raise up critical issues for construction workers like #PrevailingWage, #projectlaboragreements and #RegisteredApprenticeship. Thank you legislators ibew 223 Massachusetts AFL-CIO State House News


mass.gov/news/governor-… “UMASS Boston has been transformed over the last 10 years by capital investments under a PLA that provided career opportunities with apprentice training, good wages and benefits.The BRIGHT Act will give MA that ability across the Higher Ed” Governor Maura Healey