Tag: Building Trades Council

In late August, Aboriginal Blackman United organized over 30 unemployed union members from Bayview Hunters Point to protest construction at Bayview’s Willie Brown Academy. We did not protest because we disagree that our public schools are much in need of repair or with the $531 million that the San Francisco School District will spend to upgrade our public schools. We protested because, despite this historic opportunity for the School District to work with local communities to rebuild our schools, there are no Black workers and no Black contractors at Willie Brown Academy. And at ABU we say that if we don’t work, nobody works.

The Building Trades tried to kill 1,000 jobs proposed under the Road Repair Bond, Proposition B, because they'd be covered by the new local hire law, which the Plumbers, Electricians, and Sheet Metal Unions oppose.