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WORCESTER — One of the region’s largest construction labor groups, the Worcester-Fitchburg Building Trades Council, has announced the election of Jorge Rivera as President. A 20-year union [...]

Biden Administration Approves Nation’s First Major Offshore Wind Farm The Vineyard Wind project, off the coast of Massachusetts, would generate enough electricity to power 400,000 homes. By Lisa [...]

By Cyrus Moulton, April 28, 2021 WORCESTER — Members of the Massachusetts Building Trades Council marched in support of striking St. Vincent Hospital nurses Wednesday afternoon, with union [...]

Transcript: A nurses strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester continues to grind on – 8 weeks and counting. And now the Massachusetts Building Trades Council, the state’s largest construction [...]

  Transcript: A show of support for striking nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester. Members of the Massachusetts Building Trades Council marched with the nurses yesterday. The union’s [...]

Personnel File: Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council The Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council has reelected David Araujo as its president, Paul Alvarez as its vice [...]

The Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council, one of the region’s largest construction labor groups, has announced that David Araujo has been re-elected as president, alongside [...]

Malden, MA – The Massachusetts Building Trades Council released the following statement praising the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of incoming Labor Secretary Martin Walsh: “Marty Walsh is the Labor [...]

Boston, MA Women, a historically underrepresented group in the building trades workforce, now comprise 10% of all union building trade apprentices in Massachusetts. This is among the highest [...]

Congratulations to the newest Secretary of Labor, Boston’s own Marty Walsh. Your journey from the jobsite to the statehouse and from the city hall now to Washington has inspired a new [...]