Approval of this project by the Administration would have been a lifeline for thousands of American workers.  This delay may mean that the project will not go forward and thousands of jobs will be lost in the U.S. construction industry which continues to suffer unemployment rates approaching twice the national average.

America's Building Trades Unions today expressed their collective approval for action taken by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to favorably report out of committee a highway bill known as the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, or MAP-21.

The resounding victory tonight by Kentucky's Democratic Governor Steve Beshear sends a compelling message to politicians all across the United States.

Throughout America's Heartland, the Keystone Pipeline represents the prospect for 20,000 immediate jobs; and as many as 500,000 indirect jobs via a strong economic multiplier effect.

Cornell University released a news study which examines provisions within project labor agreements that encourage minorities, veterans and women to be hired on construction projects.

The report represented a national study of PLAs by Cornell University, consisting of an analysis of more than 185 PLAs, along with a national survey of state and local building and construction trades councils in the United States.

On Behalf of the Governing Board of Presidents of the Building and Construction Trades Department, I write to inform you that the Department and its thirteen affiliates comprised of 2.5 million members will not be participating in the 2012 Democratic Convention in September.

A statement of the BCTD to President Obama about the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline Project.

America's Building Trades unions support the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It will employ thousands of crafts professionals and provide safe, clean & reliable oil from North America.

America's Building Trades Unions are fighting for everything these days - against attacks on productivity, safety, local workers and so on. Many don't understand the Value that a skilled, trained, productive workforce brings to the table under a Project Labor Agreement. This video proves they can work on a large scale, in a state no stranger to union attacks, Wisconsin.

A statement by BCTD President Mark Ayers following President Obama's Jobs Speech to Congress.

Tennessee Valley Authority chooses union construction and is not surprisingly efficient and cost effective.

The Keystone Pipleline - Weighing Facts Versus Fiction

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We are now almost four years into the greatest economic disaster since the Great Depression. For American workers, the financial weather report calls for more of the same: a continuing and destructive economic tornado followed by heavy showers of despair.  During similar periods of dreadful economic times in our past, Americans could always take comfort in the fact that we had leaders - both public and private - who were "on the job." Such leaders would earnestly put aside partisan differences in order to fashion together concrete solutions to our nation's most pressing problems in a manner that put the interests of the many ahead of the interests of a special few.

The news that federal and state agencies had twice raided the $600 million Veterans Administration hospital construction site in Lake Nona, Florida in mid-February for undocumented and illegal workers is something that may have come as a disturbing shock to some peopls, but to America’s Building Trades Unions it was not shocking at all.

A monthly report of Project Labor Agreement News. In this edition, we talk about a new ABC backed study on school construction in California, the Dulles Rail Extension project, a 5-year Port of LA PLA and a $4.2b PLA in New York State.

A face to a name and a name to a union.

Union truths not lies.

What type of life union members and their families enjoy - when good wages and benefits are earned.