Minnesota Building & Construction Trades Council

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It’s National Apprenticeship Week!

It's National Apprenticeship Week!
Meet Morris Bell - A laborer's apprentice. Morris was a forklift operator at Menards when he heard about a program call Building Strong Communities. BSC is a free, multi-trade apprenticeship readiness program that educates participants about the unionized construction industry. He had heard about the union, the benefits and pay from family members and decided to see if it would work for him. BSC helped ... View Article

Statement from President Joe Fowler on the election.

With election day having come and gone, and the vote tallies being finalized, the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades would like to congratulate Governor Walz and Lt. Governor Flanagan, Attorney General Ellison, Secretary of State Simon, Auditor Blaha, Speaker Hortman, the new DFL Senate Majority and the Minnesota DFL on their resounding victories. While we have friends of organized labor on both sides of the aisle, many who won and ... View Article

Harry Melander Seeks Health Partners Board Position

Long time Minnesota Building and Construction Trades President Harry Melander is hoping to bring the voice of labor to the board room of Health Partners, a health insurance company that insures tens of thousands of union building and construction members. Health Partners’ one million members will be mailed ballots to choose between four candidates running for three open board seats. There hasn’t been a board member that represents labor for ... View Article

Rick Martagon to head the Construction Trades’ Building Strong Communities Program

August 15, 2022 (St. Paul, MN) – Building Strong Communities, a free construction apprenticeship preparatory program Board of Directors announced today that Rick Martagon has been hired to be the Building Strong Communities (BSC) Executive Director.  Rick joins the BSC program after working at the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry managing  Apprenticeship Minnesota. “The Building Strong Communities program provides ... View Article

Statement from Joe Fowler, President of the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council regarding Special Session Negotiations

"On behalf of the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council which represents more than 70,000 working men and women in organized labor, we’d like to thank Governor Walz for his leadership and continued efforts to bring the Legislature together to have them finish the work they did not get done during this year’s legislative session. We have legislators leaving St. Paul so that they can go campaign while a more than $9 billion state ... View Article

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