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Labor Appreciation Night

Join your brothers and sisters for Labor Nights with the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena! Tickets Start at $59 and include exclusive Penguins Labor Night T-Shirt.

UNION PLUS

Your Union Benefits Don't Stop at the Workplace. The BAC Union Plus Benefits member discount card helps you save money more than 40 different ways.

Rebuild America's Schools Act

BAC Urges Members of Congress to Support Rebuilding America's Schools

BAC President James Boland joined Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), and Congressman Donald Norc

Dispelling the Myths about the Costs of Masonry Construction

How often have you heard the phrase – you get what you pay for?  Probably a lot.  However, our culture has taught us to buy the cheapest product available.  And while finding a bargain is a good way to make our earnings go further, it also puts price over performance.

International Masonry Training & Education Foundation

TRAINING PROGRAMS

The International Masonry Training and Education Foundation (IMTEF) provides in-depth, quality training for the members of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers in all the trowel trades: brick, stone, tile, marble, terrazzo, refractory, plaster, cement and pointing/cleaning/caulking.

Trump administration tells agencies to restrict unions in the workplace

Federal agencies have been told to carry out Trump administration directives aimed at restricting the role of unions in the federal workplace and giving agencies the maximum discretion in taking disciplinary actions against employees, now that a court ban against many of those policies has been lifted.

Wage Theft

Wage theft, which includes the misclassification of workers as "independent contractors," is a nationwide problem affecting millions and is especially widespread in the construction industry. When an employer treats a worker as an independent contractor rather than as an employee – despite the fact that the employer controls and directs how the worker performs his or her work and exercises financial control over the economic aspects of the worker's job – the employer is misclassifying the worker.