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Phase II of Union-Built Office Complex Underway
By Beige Luciano-Adams
Contributing Writer
Following the first phase of a development that Building Trades Council Executive Secretary Richard Slawson heralded as “an anchor in the midst of the downturn we’ve seen in the construction industry,” craftsmen have set to work on phase two of the Horizons Project at Playa Vista.
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After Eight Years, Labor Once Again Has Voice in White House
By Roy San Filippo
Staff Writer
The atmosphere at this year’s Building Trades Department Annual Legislative conference was remarkably different than the previous eight years. Thanks to the massive mobilization efforts by the Building Trades, the new administration in Washington is pro-union, in contrast to the anti-union, anti-worker agenda under Bush-Cheney. Vice President Joe Biden summed it up in his taped address to the conference, “Welcome back to the table.”
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Fierce Lobbying Effort by Crafts Revives Dormant Project
By Roy San Filippo
Staff Writer
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on March 6 to remove the obstacles blocking the expansion project at Providence Holy Cross Hospital. The move came after intense pressure from the community and from building trades craft unions who argued that the much needed hospital beds and the well-paying construction jobs created by the project should not be held hostage by the organizing efforts of the SEIU nurse's union under the guise of further environmental study.
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By Beige Luciano-Adams
Contributing Writer
The collapse on Wall Street had affected both pension funds and financing available for construction projects. In this climate, the select projects that bring members a two-fold benefit of both a solid return on their pension funds – and a critical surge of new jobs for local trades in their area are especially welcomed.
The new Horizons office campus at Playa Vista, which is nearing completion of its first phase of development, is one such silver lining.
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Phase 1 of the $75 Million Project Promises Jobs for Local Crafts
By Beige Luciano-Adams
Contributing Writer
Having secured approval from the Los Angeles Transportation Commission, developer WesPac Energy is bringing its proposal – for the first phase of a 23-mile pipeline that will transport jet fuel from the Los Angeles Harbor Area to LAX – to the Los Angeles City Council in May.
The Los Angeles Transportation Commission voted in April to approve a 6.5-mile installation of underground pipeline that stretches from the Wilmington storage tanks at the Harbor to the Kinder Morgan Watson Pump Station at Alameda and Sepulveda in Carson.
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Building Trades Join LA County Federation of Labor in Town Hall Meeting with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
By Roy San Filippo
Staff Writer
Several U.S. military veterans testified at a Town Hall meeting on Good Jobs at Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles on April 24 to bring attention the many issues veterans face when trying to re-enter the workforce.
The event was organized by the Veterans Committee of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, the town hall was attended by over 700 veterans, community members and elected leaders including U.S. Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, Speaker of the California State Assembly, Karen Bass and L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
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