Daily News | Building trades paint a picture of a big future, with Philadelphia at the center
Ryan Boyer, business manager of the city's Building Trades Council, speaks to union members, elected officials, and labor leaders at a meeting to discuss the future of Philadelphia trades amid massive federal investment and a changing political environment locally. Sean McGarvey, president of North America's Building Trades Unions, met with Philadelphia labor unions Thursday at the Laborers’ District Council Training Center in North Philadelphia.
For Ryan Boyer, business manager of the city’s Building Trades Council since 2021, it was his first mayoral endorsement as leader of the 30-union coalition. His predecessor, John J. Dougherty, who resigned in 2021 after being convicted on federal bribery charges, had a history of getting broad backing from the rest of the unions after choosing whom to endorse, andIf the primary was a political test of sorts for Boyer, it seems he passed with flying colors.
“When we started off on this journey, the powers that be in Philadelphia, they told us that it was impossible to do. I was not from the right zip code. I was not born into wealth,” Parker said. Bair said Philadelphia’s pre-apprenticeship programs have become a model for unions across the state to bring in workers who don’t have a family tie to the trades. He echoed a sentiment Boyer made in no uncertain terms in the first minute of the multi-hour event: that the unions are looking to recruit anyone willing to work.
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