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We recently held our annual retirees’ cookout. Without a doubt, it is one of my favorite events on our calendar and I look forward to it every year. It gives the staff here at District Council 35 [...]

Recientemente llevamos a cabo nuestra barbacoa anual para jubilados. Es sin duda uno de mis eventos favoritos en nuestro calendario, y cada año lo anticipo con entusiasmo. Le da al personal aquí [...]

Even at such an early start to the 2020 presidential election, it’s clear that workers’ rights are front and center. Democratic presidential hopefuls are flocking to picket lines to support [...]

Summer is here, and the work keeps rolling along with an economy that has stood strong for some time now. All the crafts represented by your District Council have seen ample work opportunities [...]

Ground has broken on an iconic tower rising at One Congress Street in Government Center, the million square foot tower that will house State Street’s new corporate headquarters. The tower is the [...]

Fenway Center Developers Meredith Management, Gerding Edlen, and TH Real Estate officially broke ground in late January 2018 on the five-building, 1.1 million-square-foot Fenway Center at the [...]

Business and politics go hand in hand. Public work is the bread and butter of many of our contractors, and prevailing wage law protections are the only thing standing between success and failure. [...]

Polar Park’s Ceremonial Ground Breaking: the new home of the AAA Red Sox in Worcester. The Worcester Building Trades was not able to get a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) on the project, but we [...]

The last few months have been contentious in the great City of Lowell. Representative Chris Brennan, multiple building trades partners, and I educated the Lowell City Council, City Manager, and [...]

Two major projects started in Spring of 2019! The first is a replacement of the 118-year-old N. Washington Street Bridge. J.F. White Contracting Co. is the general contractor, and Prime Coating [...]