Workers claim they were asked to work overtime and were never paid an overtime premium – in addition to experiencing long delays in getting paid at all.
Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters’ Representative John Barber was sworn in as chair of the Baltimore City Wage Commission in early August.
The settlement, reached after mediation in June 2026, resolves a federal lawsuit alleging that the workers were systematically underpaid during a $66 million school renovation project.
Building trades members urged the Fredericksburg City Council to support a project that has already been scaled back, redesigned and committed to union labor.
The Baltimore-DC Metro Building Trades Council (BDCBT) and 1500 Gateway LLC, a Penzance affiliate, today announced they have entered into a formal agreement to implement a project labor agreement (PLA) for the construction of Penzance’s 1500 Gateway data center project located in Fredericksburg, Va.
The spike in Raising the Bar registrations mirrors a broader, historic jump in interest in the building trades in general, and in Mid-Atlantic apprenticeship programs in particular.
