Press Associates Union News Service reports the Laborers Union will offer all new mothers among their Members offering 12 weeks of Maternity Leave Benefits starting January 1st.  The mothers will be eligible for up to $800 per week, Union President Brent Booker says.  With the new Union-wide, Union-Paid Benefit, “you don’t have to choose between being a mother or being a Laborer,” Booker told the recent Trades Women Build Nations Conference.  “We’re looking to the future and we want all Members, including Female Members, to know that we value them, we value their families, we value their children.”  Booker called the Leave Policy “an effort to bring more Lomen into (the Laborers Union) and better the lives of the ones we already have.”  There’s no question Building Trades Unions need more new Trainees and more new Members and Women are the largest group of available but untapped talent.  Bureau of Labor Statistics data for last year, the latest available, show Women are 10.8% of all U.S. Construction Workers.

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