LABORTOOLS INDUSTRY NEWS

The Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council is committed to creating a diversified workforce and turned to LaborTools to help them create a series of short videos.

It was in the spring of 2013 when a team at BMA Media Group began working on a total redesign of two related construction trades publications, along with the logistics involved in developing and delivering a redesigned full-color unified publication to be called, The Labor Citizen.

The City of Cincinnati continues to lead the state of Ohio in implementing positive labor and workplace reform measures. Yesterday, Mayor John Cranley and Vice Mayor David Mann announced a package of city labor and workplace reforms aimed at strengthening the middle class. Other community leaders were present for this monumental announcement, including State Senator Sherrod Brown.

In an attempt to pay off a massive federal loan and keep Ohio’s trust fund solvent, a new controversial unemployment benefits bill could have significant, long-term, damaging effects on the construction industry. 

With memories of Senate Bill 5 still fresh in the minds of many union activists; Ohio lawmakers discussed a new version of the So-Called "right-to-work" legislation.

More than 100 union supporters showed up and made their presence known at the December 1, House Commerce and Labor Committee meeting where House Bill 377 was discussed.