Welcome to the BAC Local 23 Weekly Update – December 31, 2024

We hope you are having a great holiday break and we want to wish you and yours a Happy New Year!

We are looking forward to 2025.

Please read and share our weekly emails because we want to provide information about your union and include any opportunities for work. Below, you will see that a Youngstown, OH company wants to hire union bricklayers to build a school building in Cleveland, OH. 

In 2025, this email will contain a lot of information about how your union works for you, our union history, and the great BAC Local 23 members in four states that help build their communities brick by brick in so many ways.

If you have a story you want to share with your fellow members, please send it to info@bac23.org. We look forward to hearing from you.

Prevailing wage, project labor agreements, collective bargaining rights – these are our bread and butter issues that put food on our table.

And when someone tries to attack one of those guiding principles, we stand strong together.

Recently, BAC Local 23 members in West Virginia stood strong with the West Virginia Building & Construction Trades when Kanawha County Commissioner Lance Wheeler tried to strip Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rates from a $13.5 million judicial annex project in Kanawha County under the false idea it would save money.

The West Virginia Trades asked union sisters and brothers to send a message to Wheeler to stop attacking local workers and to keep our workforce skilled and drug-free, and we created and sent a flyer asking our sisters and brothers in BAC Local 23 to join in and voice their opposition to Wheeler.

Labor has supporters on the commission. Two Kanawha County Commissioners, Ben Salango and Marc Slotnick, voted down Wheeler’s motion.

Commissioner Salongo responded: “What I want is skilled labor, skilled workers who can do the job right the first time.” Amen to that.

Please download and share the flyer below to spread the word!

Download here.

Mike Coates Construction, Inc. is seeking to hire union bricklayers to work on a project in Cleveland, Ohio beginning in February, 2025. The project includes detailed brickwork on a three-story structure at a private high school. The project is expected to last three months, but Coates will have other opportunities available throughout Northeast Ohio after the completion of the high school project. If you are interested, call Mike Coates Construction at 330.652.0190 or email the company at mail@mikecoatescontruction.com.