48th Annual Holiday Luncheon Booklet

Friends,

This is the 5th year the Holiday Luncheon is benefitting CTWI, and I want to emphasize our extreme gratitude. The endless support that we receive from the Council and union affiliates allows us to do the work that ensures ALL of our community members can access careers in the union construction trades.

Our mission is to create career pathways and workforce policies that ensure diverse communities like women, the formerly incarcerated, our youth, veterans and communities of color can access, get trained and enter family sustaining union construction careers. We are able to achieve this through partnership with our trades and local community organizations, school districts and colleges.

Providing employment opportunities in the union construction industry is key to our success, which is why we have expanded our work to provide technical support to contractors, as they are critical in the hiring process. CTWI partners with contractors by connecting them to a skilled, vetted and diverse workforce so that they are able to complete construction projects in a safe and timely manner, while also supporting their efforts in meeting workforce goals in workforce agreement.

CTWI continues to bridge the gap between organized labor and community stakeholders through regional leadership and coordination, shaping and leveraging workforce policies and strengthening union construction career pathways resulting in a more inclusive, highly trained and safe workforce.

Through your generous contributions, we have:

• Created employment opportunities for 285 community members. 20% of those trainees were women and 87% were racial/ethnic minorities

• Expanded MC3 Pre-Apprenticeship Technical Education Programs in High schools, Jails and Juvenile Detention Centers across the East Bay

• Co-Led and provided Technical Assistance to a Bay Area wide partnership comprised of agencies, cities, contractors and local organizations to ensure that the high growth decarbonization market adopt labor standards and utilizes high road contractors that create quality jobs for our communities

2023 is going to be an exciting year! Your generous support will allow us to continue to advance economic and social justice for underrepresented communities and help grow and diversify union membership, all while supporting contractors employ the next generation of builders. Please stick with us as we move forward!

On behalf of CTWI’s Team and Board, we want to thank you for your time and commitment. Happy Holidays!

Beli Acharya Executive Director

Welcome

On behalf of our 27 affiliated unions of the Alameda Building & Construction Trades Council, we are so pleased to welcome you to our 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon.

For nearly 50 years, this event has been a last opportunity to network with many partners and friends as the Holiday Season kicks off. We truly hope that you enjoy this time together, and we look forward to our continued partnership with you in the coming year.

For the fifth year running we are pleased to co-host this event with our non-profit partner, the Construction Trades Workforce Initiative (“CTWI”). This innovative and effective organization focuses on the apprenticeship “pipeline” to work for targeted and disadvantaged residents, so they are prepared for and linked to pre-apprenticeship services with placement into union apprenticeship programs. Your support of our event benefits CTWI’s work and ensures that it continues serving the East Bay community.

Our Sponsors

This last year we have continued working to see that all construction workers working and living in Alameda County do so under safe conditions and with guaranteed wages and benefits to sustain themselves and their families. We are aware that the economy has been transformed by the global pandemic, climate change, and the devastating invasion of Ukraine; we have to adapt to these changes. Although, the impacts to our economy have been significant, and we have begun to see a downward trend in construction employment, California’s Democratic Administration and Legislature along with Federal level leaders, have seen to it that much needed infrastructure dollars are being approved that will serve as a lifeline for our members continued employment in the coming years.

The political work that we did in 2020 has paid off, and in the current election cycle that just ended many of our local and federal level progressive pro Labor and Building & Construction Trades candidates were successful. We know that electing democrats who are committed to preserving our democracy, and to protecting workers’ rights is paramount today. To that end I welcome all the new candidates and officeholders; we look forward to working with all of you. We will partner with you and continue to inform you on the importance of promoting workers’ rights and Trade Unions.

During the next year, with you, we will commit our work to investments in infrastructure, affordable housing, and renewable energy, all with union workers and strong labor standards, and to ensuring that there will be a qualified union labor force to build it. Specifically, we will work tirelessly to make sure that the Oakland A’s develop their new project at Howard’s Terminal, a project that will not only provide thousands of local union construction jobs, but will also preserve the hundreds of good union operational jobs that are currently at the coliseum. Our focus will also be on passing policies that will require union labor on the many private projects in Alameda County, the majority of which are currently being built without any labor standards and without worker representation.

We truly thank you for your participation in this year’s Holiday Luncheon, and for your support of working families. It is great to see old friends and meeting some of you for the first time, and we hope that this event will be the start of a festive and healthy Holiday Season. We all deserve it, so please take some time off to be with family and friends and to recharge. Next year we will face many challenges together, so let us take strength in our unity!

Happy Holidays!

Andreas Cluver, Secretary-Treasurer

Rob Stoker, President

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Our Sponsors

Thank you to everyone who has supported our 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon. In particular, we wish to acknowledge the generosity of our sponsors!

Business Manager

Organizer Union Rep

Pre-Apprentice

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Journeyman

Hon. Nancy O’Malley

Apprentice

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Program

11:30 am

Networking & Food Stations

12:15 pm Welcome & Remarks

Andreas Cluver Beli Acharya Rob Stoker 12:30 pm Continued Networking 1:30 pm Event Conclusion

Happy 2023!

Kirsten Cross

In Memoriam & In Our Hearts

This year, our team lost one of our founding leaders, Kirsten Cross. Kirsten brought extensive experience from the nonprofit, labor, community and political worlds to her role as Director of Programs at CTWI. Her passion and commitment to the working class and the labor movement inspire us all to keep fighting the good fight through uplifting disadvantaged communities by providing them with education and access to good union careers. She was an amazing friend, colleague, and role model. We miss her dearly.

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

& Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

& Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Best holiday wishes to all who work

development initiatives.

& Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

so hard on the construction industry’s vital workforce

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

AC Transit celebrates the commitment of the Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County.

Our collective dedication to the Bay Area continues to bring out the best in all of us.

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual

& Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

& Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO | 48th Annual Holiday Luncheon

“Happy to continue building Events of Impact and Spreading Cheer with You throughout the Year!”

— Laurie & Team

Building & Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO

2022 Executive Board Members

Rob Stoker, President

Sheet Metal Workers Local 104

Rafael Gonzalez, Vice-President Laborers, Local 304

Ché Timmons, Sergeant-in-Arms Plumbers & Steamfitters, Local 342

Andreas Cluver, Secretary-Treasurer

Building Trades Council of Alameda County

Greg Bonato, Trustee IBEW, Local 595

Jeff Dixon, Trustee Sprinkler Fitters, Local 483

Martin Espinoza Jr., Trustee Pile Drivers, Local 34

Jason Gallia, Trustee Ironworkers, Local 378

Bob Llewellyn, Trustee Glaziers, Local 169

Affiliates

Auto & Marine Painters, #1176 Boilermakers, #549 Brick & Tile Layers, #3 Carpenters, #713 Carpenters, #2236 Carpet & Linoleum, #12 Cement Masons, #300 Electrical Workers, #595 Elevator Constructors #8 Glaziers #169 Insulators & Asbestos Workers, #16 Iron Workers, #378 Laborers, #67 Laborers, #304 Lathers, #68L Millwrights, #102 Operating Engineers, #3 Painters, #3 Pile Drivers, #34 Plasterers, #66 Plumbers & Steamfitters, #342 Roofers, #81 Sheet Metal Workers, #104 Sign & Display, #510 Sprinkler Fitters, #483 Teamsters, #853 U.A., Utilities/Landscape, #355

www.btcalameda.org

Construction Trades Workforce Initiative (CTWI)

Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Andreas Cluver, President

Jill Perry, Treasurer Dylan Boldt

Elizabeth Ortega-Toro

Bill Whitney

Members

Elena Anaya Danny Bernardini

Kitty Creech

Tim Frank Floyd Henson Meg-Anne Pryor

www.ctwi-btca.org

Staff

Beli Acharya

Jordan Ackerman

Juan Calderon

Sandra Duenas

Austin Mendoza

Megan Nazareno Elizabet Wendt