Building Material & Construction Trade Members

News Updates

Headline News
August 31 -

Construction of the Alberta Clipper Pipeline is beginning in northern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.

Headline News
July 21 -

Heavy construction drivers at Skanska USA Civil West California District Inc. voted overwhelmingly 17-1 to remain members of Teamsters Local 166 in Bloomington, California.

Press Release
July 2 -

Veterans in need of jobs got a boost today with the formation of a partnership between the U.S. Army Reserve and Helmets to Hardhats, a national program the Teamsters Union supports that offers job assistance and training opportunities for union jobs to veterans. The alliance was announced at a Pentagon ceremony today.

Headline News
June 4 -

Wednesday was a busy day for Patrick Radzak, Secretary- Treasurer of the Teamsters Union, Local 346. The phones, Radzak said, rang non-stop.

Headline News
May 27 -

Teamsters Training Director Mark Johnson has been selected by the National Academy of Sciences to serve on a panel to develop a project statement and select an entity to conduct research into the feasibility of a single transportation workers identification credential.

Headline News
May 14 -

Teamsters Local 142 broke ground Wednesday for its training and apprentice school. Ten Teamsters lifted shovels full of earth to applause from the assembled crowd of more than 40 people on hand.

Headline News
May 7 -

Mixer truck drivers who work at AJO Concrete Construction Inc. in Baltimore, and are members of Local 311, recently ratified their first agreement with the company.

Headline News
April 22 -

To say that the management of barge builder Jeffboat LLC and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 89 have had a tenuous relationship over the years would be an understatement.

Headline News
April 8 -

Teamsters Local 200 announced this week that workers at NexGen Building Supply in Milwaukee voted unanimously to join the union.

Press Release
March 12 -

Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa praised the U.S. House of Representatives today for defeating an amendment that would have stripped basic wage protections from the Water Quality Investment Act of 2009.