09/25/2026
WE DID IT, FAIRBANKS LABOR! 💪🏼💛
Just before midnight last night, the FNSB Assembly passed the Community Workforce Agreement ordinance 7–2!
I am SO incredibly proud of my union brothers and sisters.
We packed the chambers. We packed the lobby. We gave away EVERY SINGLE hi-vis Building Trades shirt we brought. And then, one after another, working people stood up and told their stories.
Stories about apprenticeship changing their lives. About learning a trade and building a career. About family-supporting wages, healthcare and retirement. About getting an opportunity and then being able to provide that same opportunity to the next generation.
THAT is why this matters.
A CWA gives us another tool to make sure that when our community invests millions of public dollars into construction, we aren’t just building a building — we’re building our local workforce. We’re creating pathways into registered apprenticeship, developing skilled tradespeople right here at home, and giving more Fairbanks families a shot at a solid middle-class career.
Last night was organized labor doing what organized labor does best:
SHOWING UP. STANDING TOGETHER. AND MAKING OUR VOICES IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
To every person who testified, called, emailed, shared the flyer, texted five friends, wore a shirt, filled a seat or stood in that lobby — YOU DID THIS.
I couldn’t be prouder of Fairbanks labor today.
7–2. CWA PASSED.
