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NM Building Trades Spotlight: Ironworkers Local 847
Ironworkers Local 847 is a regional reinforcing specialty local chartered in February 2008 with jurisdiction in 13 states. The local currently has over 1000 active members and more than 20 signatory contractors throughout the United States. Add info to site Local 847 has business agents/field representatives in various regions with offices in Arizona, Texas,…
Mission
The New Mexico Building Construction & Trades Council (NMBCTC) is an alliance of craft unions that are the best choice for highly skilled and highly productive construction labor. That’s because the NMBCTC and its affiliated member unions demonstrates a concerted commitment to world class skills development and training; coupled with a 21st century labor/management model…
State’s mistake stalls road project, costs thousands…
SANTA FE (KRQE) – A multi-million dollar road project is facing a big road-block and all New Mexicans will pay for it. In late 2014, FNF Construction of Tempe, Ariz., won a bid for the project with the New Mexico Department of Transportation. The company was hired to pave Interstate 40 and rebuild a bridge…
Sanchez attended labor summit at White House
NM Political Report – Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez was far away from his home in Valencia County or even the Roundhouse in Santa Fe on Wednesday. The Democrat from Belen took part in the “Summit on Worker Voice” at the White House. The New York Times described the gathering as “an effort to give unions,…
Meltdown of construction sector continues
The Santa Fe New Mexican – The coming expansion project at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center might bring something we haven’t seen in Santa Fe in a long time — construction cranes. The absence of large-scale projects have taken its toll on New Mexico construction workers and both Santa Fe and Las Cruces are…
Why Union?
The Santa Fe New Mexican – The coming expansion project at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center might bring something we haven’t seen in Santa Fe in a long time — construction cranes. The absence of large-scale projects have taken its toll on New Mexico construction workers and both Santa Fe and Las Cruces are…
NM loses homegrown solar manufacturer
Albuquerque Journal – Direct Power & Water Corp. — one of New Mexico’s original, homegrown solar manufacturing companies — is consolidating its factory production in North Carolina where DPW’s parent firm, Preformed Line Products Co., has a massive factory. DPW makes racks and other components for solar systems at a three-building, 33,000-square-foot complex that it leases…
Another Voice: Apprenticeships build ladders to middle class
Debt-free degrees are a “pipe” dream – but not the kind you’re thinking of. Each year, 170,000 Americans enroll in apprenticeship programs to learn trades – like pipefitting, bricklaying and plumbing – that will catapult them to the middle class. These tradesmen-in-training not only avoid crippling student debt, they actually “earn while they learn.” And…