LIUNA Builds and Maintains Energy Infrastructure
Our members build and maintain the infrastructure that powers homes and businesses across the nation. In the power generation industry, LIUNA builds, maintains, and modernizes power plants for fuel sources including wind, solar, nuclear, coal and natural gas. In the gas distribution sector, LIUNA members repair, maintain, construct, and recondition natural gas pipelines. In the midstream sector, which consists of transporting and treating natural gas and oil before it reaches users, members clear right of way, build pipelines and return the land to its original condition-or better. LIUNA is also busy in our local communities constructing and maintaining the service lines that reach people’s homes and businesses.
LIUNA Members Advocate for an All-of-the-Above Energy Policy
LIUNA supports policies that encourage an “all-of -the-above” approach to meeting our energy needs and for strong labor standards as a condition for federal support.
LIUNA also supports new capacity in refining and liquefied natural gas with labor standards as well as the responsible development of minerals, natural gas resources, next generation nuclear power, new technologies for increasing the use of hydrogen and carbon capture - all of which can help communities reliant on fossil fuels maintain their economic viability.
LIUNA Offers a Workforce and More
All LIUNA members receive OSHA training, and through our training and apprenticeship funds, invest about $100 million a year in skills training through more than 70 mobile and fixed training centers, including three state-of-the-art training centers in New Jersey. Our programs are market-based and all curriculum is designed to meet the needs of contractors and project owners. In the energy sector, our goal is to provide the job-ready, highly trained, safe and effective workforce that helps projects succeed.
Through the New Jersey Laborers’ Health and Safety Fund, LIUNA also helps project owners and contractors make work safer by reducing accident rates, controlling workers’ compensation costs, and saving lives. Our professional staff provides on-site assistance and can provide safety and health-related information and training on just about any topic needed out in the field.