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Honda/LG battery plant to break ground on Feb. 28

The second-largest construction project in Ohio’s history will break ground in late February.

As previously reported on the Sheet Metal Workers Local 24 website, Honda and LG signed a Project Labor Agreement with the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council to construct their joint venture electrical vehicle (EV) battery plant on 454 acres in Jeffersonville, a small town in Fayette County, Ohio.

The project will create at least 5,300 jobs for members of the building trades, including about 200 jobs for members of SMW 24, and roughly 2,200 full-time permanent jobs.

Site preparation began on Nov. 14 at the Mid-West Mega Commerce Center, and the groundbreaking, which will ceremonially kick off the $3.7 billion project, is scheduled for Feb. 28. Continue reading →

DOL to target companies who misclassify workers

The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule change designed to target employee misclassification.

The proposed rule change would rescind a Trump-era rule from 2021, and would impact a number of industries including construction, healthcare, trucking, food service and retail.

Jessica Looman, Principal Deputy Administrator at the DOL, announced the plans to protect low-wage workers from being misclassified as independent contractors.  Continue reading →

Bechtel named GC for Intel project

Posted by / November 29, 2022 / Categories: News / Tags: , , , / 0 Comments

As expected, Intel selected Bechtel Corp. as the general contractor for the first phase of its $100 billion semiconductor manufacturing campus in New Albany. 

The official announcement, made on Nov. 28, did not come as a surprise as Betchel was linked to this project since it was announced Ohio had landed the semiconductor project.

“Intel has chosen Bechtel to deliver our largest construction project to date, advancing our mission to create a more sustainable, resilient and geographically balanced supply of silicon,” Jackie Sturm, Intel’s Corporate Vice President, Global Supply Chain Operations, said in a prepared statement.  Continue reading →

Honda/LG pick TYK as GC for EV battery plant project

Posted by / November 16, 2022 / Categories: News / Tags: , , , , / 0 Comments

The Honda and LG joint venture selected TYK as the general contractor for its $3.5 billion electrical vehicle (EV) plant in Jeffersonville.

According to multiple media reports, TYK is a joint venture between Turner Construction Co., Yates Construction and Kokosing Industrial.

The two other partners are Westerville-based Kokosing, a civil construction company and Yates, a Mississippi-based company with a history of work in the auto sector and battery projects. Yates built the Nissan North America Electric Vehicle Battery Plant located in Smyrna, Tenn.

The three firms will work together to build Honda’s EV plant on an accelerated schedule. Continue reading →

Intel ceremonially breaks ground on $100 billion project

President Biden, Governor DeWine and hundreds of other guests gathered at the site of future Intel semiconductor plants to commemorate the start of the largest construction project in the history of Ohio.

On the morning of Sept. 9, hundreds of guests – made up of local, county, state and federal officials, along with building trades, business and education leaders – stood on the ground where Intel’s first fab will be constructed and took part in the groundbreaking ceremony.

Initially scheduled to take place on July 22, the ceremony was postponed to September due to concerns regarding the inability of Congress to pass the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act. In late July, Congress passed the CHIPS Act as part of House Resolution 4346, and Biden signed it into law on Aug. 9. A month later, with site work already started, dignitaries gathered to formally celebrate the beginning of the $20 billion project that will build two Intel fabs, an office building and other key infrastructure.  Continue reading →

Proposed Davis Bacon updates are good news for member of SMW 24

For the first time in over 40 years, the government has proposed updating the Davis-Bacon regulations.

The 1931 Davis-Bacon Act requires the payment of Prevailing Wage rates on federal or federally assisted construction contracts. The law applies to workers on contracts in excess of $2,000 entered into by federal agencies and the District of Columbia for the construction, alteration or repair of public buildings or public works. It protects local wage standards by preventing contractors from basing bids on cheaper wages than those prevailing locally. 

If the proposal is acted upon, it would directly benefit members of Sheet Metal Workers Local 24 members, along with other union building trades and even some non-union construction workers. It would benefit all Local 24 members working on federal projects, especially on contracts at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which have been particularly prevalent.  Continue reading →

Intel to build one of world’s largest microchip plants in Central Ohio

Posted by / January 24, 2022 / Categories: Columbus / Tags: , , , / 0 Comments

Hundreds of jobs expected for SMW Local 24 members

Central Ohio will soon be home to one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing plants.

On Jan. 21, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger jointly announced plans to build a $20 billion Intel complex in the Columbus area. It is believed to be the largest private-sector investment in Ohio history. 

The new Intel project will likely create hundreds of jobs for Local 24 members. The project will produce about 7,000 construction jobs, 3,000 full-time jobs and support tens of thousands of additional local long-term jobs across a broad ecosystem of suppliers and partners.  Continue reading →

In the face of a silver tsunami, union apprentices are high in demand

The Great Resignation means union building trades apprentices are more valued and needed than ever before.

That is the premise of a recent Dayton Daily News article that details the importance of apprentices to the local economy, especially as more Americans are quitting their jobs and reassessing what they want from a career.

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Construction to Begin on Amazon Datacenter in Central Ohio

Construction on Amazon’s second datacenter campus in the Central Ohio area is expected to begin by the end of the year.

The Amazon datacenter in Hilliard will be the largest in the region — an area that has been touted as Ohio’s Silicon Valley.

The region has had an influx of construction jobs thanks to numerous datacenters being built by a variety of technology companies. Both Google and Facebook are currently constructing datacenters in New Albany. Amazon has another datacenter campus in Hilliard, as well as separate datacenter buildings in Dublin and New Albany.

The Columbus area is also home to other numerous, smaller datacenters. Continue reading →

Sheet Metal Workers Local 24 Endorsed Candidates

Posted by / October 7, 2021 / Categories: News / Tags: , , , , / 0 Comments

Nov. 2 General Election

Cincinnati Area

Cincinnati City Council
Jeff Cramerding
Michelle Dillingham
Steve Goodin
Reggie Harris
Mark Jeffreys
Greg Landsman
Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney
Victoria Parks

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