International Brotherhood of Boilermakers - The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers, AFL-CIO

As I look back on the 35th Consolidated Convention, I’m filled with hope for the future. The Convention gave us an opportunity to reflect on where we’ve been and look at the challenges we have overcome. But even more, it gave us the opportunity to decide where we are going. When I stood before our delegates, I spoke about a vision for this Brotherhood—a union united in purpose w...

A massive new energy campus proposed for Cleveland and Bradley County, Tennessee, could bring billions of dollars in investments and thousands of construction jobs to the area. Project River is an $11.3 billion industrial energy campus that would include a natural gas plant and a biomass plant that would potentially provide power to a data center, robotics development, battery p...

As the 2026 Ohio Valley Tripartite Conference met Aug. 11-12 in Lexington, Kentucky, the area’s fast-growing need for amped up energy production prompted some familiar discussion: Data centers are expanding rapidly across America, and each one requires an incredible amount of power to run, which puts more strain on already thinly stretched grids. Many plans to retire reliable fo...