November 6, 2015 – With 54 Republicans joining Democrats, an effort to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act that ensures prevailing wage for construction workers on federal public works projects was defea

November 2015 – On the issues that matter most to California’s Building Trades workers, the recently wrapped up 2015 legislative session was an exceptionally busy—and in the end, exceptional

October 22, 2015 – The Executive Board of the State Building and Construction Trades Council has voted to raise the minimum wage in California for all workers to $15 per hour, with no exceptions

October 13, 2015 – Governor Jerry Brown signed four more SBCTC-sponsored measures in the final moments before this year’s signing deadline this past weekend, capping another spectacularly

October 2015 – I was pleased, but not surprised, to read recently a Bureau of  National Affairs news report that the relentless union-bashing we have seen for many years from right-wing politic

September 17, 2015 – In the closing days of the 2015 legislative session, several important bills sponsored by the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California won final legislat