Making Green: Good-Paying Jobs With an Environmental Focus

Partners in Progress: SMART and SMACNA’s Labor-Management Cooperative Fund

Darnice Marsh, Andrew Hasty
We interviewed Joye Blanscett, the Executive Director of Operations for SMACNA, and Donna Silverman, Assistant to the General President for SMART, about their experiences with Partners in Progress.

A Second Chance Set This Worker on the Path to Career Success

Office of Public Affairs
Second Chance Month provides an opportunity to highlight the barriers people face in finding work after incarceration – and the benefits of the programs that help them overcome those challenges.

Helping Employers and Workers Build Relationships and Reach Agreements

Lynn Rhinehart, Cassie Robertson

One of the biggest challenges facing workers when they organize a union is reaching an initial collective bargaining agreement with their employer. New research confirms that only 36% of newly-organized units have a collective bargaining agreement within the first year, and 66% within three years.

Protecting Workers from Trenching Hazards