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PA Building News • October 20, 2026

PUC: Curtail Centers First When Power is Tight

PA PUC voted 4-0 to seek comment on a plan curtailing data centers and other large new power loads before other customer...
PA Building News • October 20, 2026

Green Technology Highlights Scranton Affordable Housing Project

The Welby Court project will transform a vacant Scranton lot into two six-unit affordable housing buildings, aimed at ea...
PA Building News • October 20, 2026

Dispensaries, Mental Health Facility Planned for Central PA

Several businesses and nonprofits have opened or will soon open medical-related facilities across southcentral Pennsylva...
News • September 23, 2022

Scranton JATC

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Build Back Better • August 3, 2022

DOMESTIC RENEWABLE MANUFACTURING RAMPS UP

The Biden administration invoked the Defense Production Act to ease supply chain issues around solar panels on...
Build Back Better • November 2, 2021

Addressing Wage Theft in the Construction Industry

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh participated in a roundtable on October 13 at Atlanta Local 613 that focused on low wages an...
Build Back Better • November 2, 2021

The Carbon-Free Strategy : Leaning Into Nuclear

IBEW President Lonnie R. Stephenson wrote in an op-ed that the Biden administration’s climate goals will be met onl...
Build Back Better • November 2, 2021

White House Pro-Worker Task Force Gains Momentum

A high-level committee headed by Vice President Kamala Harris continues its investigation into leveraging the federal go...
Build Back Better • October 26, 2021

Pres. Biden Talks Renewables at DOE Site

It was almost déjà vu when Denver Local 68 journeyman wireman Julian Aguilar met President Biden at the National Renewa...
News • June 16, 2020

HOLIDAYS

Please be advised that under the terms and conditions of our inside and residential collective bargaining agreements, th...
News • April 16, 2019

Right to Work

These days, ...