CLDC News

Largest Expansion of Davis-Bacon Act in Generations
August 22, 2023 - Contractors CLDC LMCC LECET
Labor Tribune DOL final rule updating Davis-Bacon Act represents largest expansion in generationsAugust 21, 2023By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a final rule updating and modernizing the Davis-Bacon Act. The updat…
Construction Workers Celebrate Strengthened Prevailing Wages
August 8, 2023 - Contractors CLDC LMCC LECET
Washington, D.C. (August 8, 2023) – Brent Booker, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – made the following statement today: The Biden Administration’s final rule to update the …
House GOP Majority Wants to Gut Bipartisan Infrastructure Program/IIJA
July 25, 2023 - Contractors CLDC LMCC LECET
For those, whose jobs depend on transportation infrastructure investment, take note that the Republican majority in the House wants to completely gut Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure program, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Here&rs…
Biden, Pritzker Making History for Construction, Laborers
July 14, 2023 - Contractors CLDC LMCC LECET
As you are by now aware, Governor Pritzker has released the $41 billion Fiscal Year 2024-29 Proposed Highway and Multimodal Improvement Program - the largest capital program in Illinois History! You can find both the program and printable fact sheets…
Inside the Tollway...
July 14, 2023 - Contractors CLDC LMCC LECET
News, stories and insight from inside the Illinois Tollway. The Illinois Tollway and its workforce development partners reached out this week to a south suburban Chicago church community to promote career opportunities in highway construction through…
Inflation Reduction Act Requires Prevailing Wage & Registered Apprenticeships
July 13, 2023 - Contractors CLDC LMCC LECET
Gov. Pritzker Announces Largest-Ever Construction Program in State History
July 7, 2023 - Contractors CLDC LMCC LECET
New $40 billion, multi-year effort reflects strength of Rebuild Illinois, multimodal commitment SPRINGFIELD – Governor JB Pritzker joined state and local officials at the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) headquarters today to announ…
Laborers Back Joe Biden for Four More Years
June 8, 2023 - Contractors CLDC LMCC LECET
Washington, D.C. (June 8, 2023) – Brent Booker, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – made the following statement today: LIUNA’s more than half-million strong members enthusia…
Third-Generation Laborer Brent Booker Takes the Helm of One of the Largest Construction Trades Unions in North America
May 1, 2023 - CLDC
Washington, D.C. (May 1, 2023) – Brent Booker, a third-generation laborer, today became General President of the half-million member Laborers’ International Union of North America. Booker was appointed to the position by the union’s…
Workers' Memorial Day
April 28, 2023 - CLDC
April 28, 2023 As we approach the end of April, it is time to renew our commitment to fighting for safer jobs and commemorating those whom we have lost as we commemorate Workers Memorial Day in the U.S. and the National Day of Mourning in Canada, fol…