Protecting Your Wages, Benefits & Pension
Won jurisdictional disputes against the Pipe fitters and other trades to protect and increase the union's underground work jurisdiction.
Signed many non-union contractors, increasing membership and ensuring they contribute to benefit funds, which protects wages, benefits, and pensions.
The Numbers
Increased healthcare contribution rate from $6 per hour to $18 per hour, leading to best healthcare in the nation
Raised Local 2 Laborers' wages from $28 per hour in 2003 to $50.15 per hour as of June 1st, 2024.
Increased pension benefits from $93 per pension credit to the current $117 per pension credit, with a recent vote to raise pension credits to an all-time high of $122 per hour as of June 1st, 2024.
Local 2's membership has grown from 1300 members in 2003 to over 1600.
Local 2 had $300,000 in the bank in 2003 and now that has increased to over $12,000,000 in total assets.