Posts tagged Community Benefits Agreement
Area trades complete work at Progressive Field: Phase I renovation covered by Community Benefits Agreement [CBA]
Area trades complete work at Progressive Field: Phase I renovation covered by Community Benefits Agreement [CBA]

Working under a Community Benefits Agreement [CBA], affiliated members of the Cleveland Building Trades completed Phase I of the $200 million Progressive Field renovations in time for the Guardians home opener on April 8.

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Community, Construction Issues, Construction Projects, Organized LaborCBCTC GenProgressive Field, The Jake, Cleveland Guardians, Community Benefits Agreement, CBA, Baseball
Cleveland creates incentives to use Community Benefit Agreements

Cleveland leaders gathered on the steps of City Hall on June 27 to talk about the Community Benefits Ordinance recently passed by the City Council. Ordinance 297-2023 was passed on June 5. It is designed to encourage developers to use Cleveland-based, minority-owned and women-owned businesses for construction projects in exchange for incentives. The new ordinance will also create job opportunities for members of the building trades and provide a pathway for more Cleveland residents to join the trades. “I worked closely with the city on this, so I’m very pleased it passed,” said Dave Wondolowski, Executive Secretary and Business Manager of the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council.

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Community, Construction Projects, Construction IssuesCBCTC GenCleveland City Council President Blaine Griffin, Cleveland City Council, Mayor Justin Bibb, Community Benefits Agreement, Dave Wondolowski
Wondolowski calls out GCP’s double talk

The following article was an op-ed piece by Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council Executive Secretary/Business Manager Dave Wondolowski. It was was first published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com on May 21.. Wondolowski provided The Labor Citizen with a copy to publish in order to educate Cleveland-area building trades members about the Greater Cleveland Partnership and its preference for using out-of-state, low-wage construction workers on projects instead of promoting the use of Community Benefit Agreements.

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CBCTC GenDave Wondolowski, Community Benefits Agreement, GCP, Greater Cleveland Partnership
Trades score Progressive Field renovation work
Trades score Progressive Field renovation work

The Cleveland Guardians released details of their upcoming renovation project to reimagine their nearly 30-year-old ballpark. Renovation work on Progressive Field, the 11th-oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball, will begin upon the conclusion of the 2023 season and be performed by affiliated members of the Cleveland Building Trades under a Project Labor Agreement and a Community Benefits Agreement.

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Community, Construction Issues, Construction ProjectsCBCTC GenCleveland Guardians, Cleveland Indians, Progressive Field, Project Labor Agreement, City of Cleveland, Paul dolan, Community benefitsagreement, construction industry, The AKA Team, Minority owned business, Female busienss enterprise, Community Benefits Agreement