LABORTOOLS INDUSTRY NEWS

When the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry decided they needed to overhaul the website used to promote its residential plumbing services, they contacted LaborTools powered by BMA Media Group to get the job done.

In late March, BMA Media Group launched a new website for the Electrical Trades Center of Central Ohio.

A new website for the IBEW Local 5 JATC has provided the union training center with important information they would have otherwise never received from their old, outdated and non-mobile friendly website.

Do you have a smartphone, but you’re lacking the video-taking skills to produce a sufficient video? Our video crew, who are members of the IBEW, came up with some helpful tips to ensure that you can create quality video on your phone during a time-sensitive situation.

When value engineering is brought up in the presence of those affiliated with the mechanical insulation trade, it is often met with derision, and is understood mainly as a cost cutting procedure. While Value Engineering (VE) is often used as a cost cutting mechanism when budgets get tight on building projects, it was not designed with this as its primary function.

It is for this reason, and other, the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Local Insulators Unions have partnered with BMA Media Group to help promote the benefits of mechanical insulation. 

BMA Media Group is, once again, an award-winning multimedia firm.  The company, and AGS Custom Graphics, won the Gold Award from Printing Industries of Ohio and Northern Kentucky for the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council “Super-Brochure We Built This City.”

The City of Cincinnati continues to lead the state of Ohio in implementing positive labor and workplace reform measures. Yesterday, Mayor John Cranley and Vice Mayor David Mann announced a package of city labor and workplace reforms aimed at strengthening the middle class. Other community leaders were present for this monumental announcement, including State Senator Sherrod Brown.

The following press release was sent out on Friday, March 25, 2016, from the Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers of Ohio and Kentucky. The long awaited, dramatically reduced exposure regulations by the Department of Labor was made public by Secretary Perez at the BAC Training Center in Bowie, Maryland. 

A new video highlights the ongoing efforts of the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council to create a diversified construction workforce.

Students and adults thinking about going to college to earn a bachelor’s degree should give strong consideration to apprenticeships, vocational and other technical educations says a January Forbes.com article.