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WV Selected as Site for Multi-Billion-Dollar Natural Gas Power Plant
Last month, energy company Competitive Power Ventures announced it had selected West Virginia as the state it would build a new natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant with carbon capture and storage. According to the company, the plant will produce about 1,800...
WV House Leaders Visit IUOE 132
Operating Engineers 132 Apprenticeship Training Coordinator Allen Nelson (right) gives a tour of the IUOE 132 training site to a delegation of WV House of Delegates leaders, led by Speaker Roger Hanshaw. Over the last two years, the Affiliated Construction Trades...
Upper Ohio Valley Trades and Project BEST Hold Annual Career Fair
High school students visit craft exhibits at the 2022 Construction Job and Career Fair at the Wheeling Ice Rink on September 21. Over 500 students were in attendance from across the Ohio Valley. At the event, students had the opportunity to network with...
WV State Building Trades Holds 2022 Convention
Last month on September 14, the West Virginia State Building and Construction Trades held their annual convention in Roanoke, WV at Stonewall State Park. More than 70 representatives from the Trades attended the event to conduct annual business, network, and hear from...
Trades Get Out the Vote
Senator Richard Lindsay speaks to a group of volunteers from various Charleston Building Trades crafts at the West Virginia State Building Trades headquarters in Charleston, West Virginia on Saturday, October 8. The volunteers knocked over 1,000 doors in Dunbar and...
Trades, Schools, and Lawmakers Partner to Strengthen WV Workforce
For the first time ever, representatives from the West Virginia State Building and Construction Trades, West Virginia lawmakers, representatives from community and technical colleges, as well as members of state and local school boards met in Huntington at IBEW 317 to...
Trades Testify at Capitol on Associate Degrees for Apprenticeship Programs
On September 13, West Virginia State Building Trades representatives were invited to the state capitol to speak about the future for apprenticeship training programs in the state. One of the major topics of discussion was related to associate degrees for apprentices...
October 2022 – Volume 31
October 2022Volume 31
WVCBT Endorsement Process Description
The WVCBT endorsement process is based on work related issues like restoring prevailing wage, workplace safety, enforcing and strengthening licensing laws, opposing so-called Right-to-Work, and other issues important to the Trades. WVCBT participates in the WV AFL-CIO...
Trades Participate in 2022 Labor Day Events
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 141 member Art Oakland (left) and Business Manager Tom Conner (right) march in the Paden City Labor Day Parade in Paden City, West Virginia. The Paden City parade is one of the longest running Labor Day events held in...