Trades Council

noun

1. (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area

Example Sentences

Ernesto Medrano, executive secretary of the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, said the project will be an investment in L.A.’s workers.

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However, support for SB 79 surged in recent days after the State Building and Construction Trades Council, a powerful labor group that represents union construction workers, agreed to reverse their opposition in exchange for amendments that add union hiring to certain projects.

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In a statement after the deal was struck, the trades council president Chris Hannan said the amendments would provide good jobs and training to California’s skilled construction workforce.

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“This proposal is a wage grab of construction workers’ wages disguised in an ‘affordable housing bill,’ ” State Building and Construction Trades Council president Chris Hannan said in a letter.

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In 2022, the California Conference of Carpenters defected from the State Building and Construction Trades Council and supported a less-strict version of labor standards, which lawmakers ushered into multiple bills.

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