LABOR BRIEFING: How Building Trades Aim to Recruit More Women

With more than $800 billion in training dollars up for grabs under the bipartisan infrastructure law, unions and industry groups say they’re redoubling efforts to recruit more women and minority workers into the building trades.

Focus on Childcare: North America’s Building Trades Unions and the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers are both offering new benefits to help with childcare costs. The Illinois chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors, an industry association representing construction employers, also has a partnership with the non-profit Project H.O.O.D. that offers employment coaching and financial services as well as technical training to ...