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National Work Zone Safety Week 2020 With the COVID-19 pandemic closing businesses, schools, and government agencies, hundreds of thousands of workers across the region are out of work or working from home. That’s not the case for LIUNA’s construction members. With warmer weather, workers are busy in highway work zones.Read more

Complete your 2020 Census form here Results from the Census help determine... How much construction funding your state gets from the federal government for highway, bridge, and other kinds of transportation work. Where new hospitals, schools, and other big building projects will be built. How much funding is available forRead more

Oklahoma City Local 2097, an all-federal employee local of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), stood up to a challenge posed by the agency regarding LiUNA’s representational role within the FAA. The agency requested a Representation Hearing with the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), and Local 2097 sent representatives to Washington,Read more

On Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. This was the biggest labor law reform bill to pass a House of Congress in more than a decade. For your reference there is an FAQ and LIUNA's support letter forRead more

(Springfield, IL) LIUNA Local 165 member Reggie Marizetts, Jr., was a guest of Governor JB Pritzker’s for The Governor’s State of the State address. Marizetts, a first year apprentice from Peoria, IL, was featured as Pritzker spoke of the passage last year of the $45 billion infrastructure plan “Rebuild Illinois,”Read more

November 21, 2019 (PARIS, IL) Laborers Home Development Corporation (LHDC) held a ceremonial “wall breaking” today to commemorate the start of construction to redevelop the former Paris High School into senior affordable apartments. Tiger Senior Apartments will consist of 42 units in a mix of studio, one, and two bedroomRead more

Every day, millions of Americans leave their homes and families to go to work. Sadly, 12 of them will not return to their loved ones due to a work place fatality. 12 a day, when even one death is unacceptable. On April 28th of each year, Worker Memorial DayRead more

Day two of National Work Zone Awareness Week began with a press conference hosted by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) at their headquarters in Springfield, IL. Guest speakers included Illinois Transportation Acting Secretary Omer Osman, Bill Frey – Associated General Contractors of Illinois, Training Instructor Tabitha Stambaugh fromRead more

National Work Zone Awareness Week officially kicked off Monday morning with a press conference hosted by the Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) held in a work zone at the intersection of I-270 and I-44 in southwest St. Louis. As trucks and cars of all sizes sped by in theRead more

Springfield, IL, February 12, 2019: Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 477 Business Manager Brad Schaive was awarded the President’s Award at the NAACP Springfield Chapter’s banquet held at the Crown Plaza on Feb 10, 2019. The NAACP held their 98th Annual Lincoln Douglas Freedom Fund Banquet. ThisRead more