Local 89
The San Diego Labor Union for The People and The Community
The San Diego Labor Union for The People and The Community
LIUNA Local 89’s mission is to provide stable employment and financial security to its members and their families. Local 89 delivers a path to the middle class to its membership by negotiating livable wages and protecting benefit standards for workers in San Diego County. It is the Laborers Training and Retraining Trust’s mission to furnish participating Southern California Construction Contractors with a highly skilled, trained and motivated workforce that is willing to meet the growing standards of a continuously changing industry. We train and retrain apprentices and journey-persons to achieve the necessary skills to work efficiently and safely.
LIUNA believes everyone should have access to affordable healthcare benefits. Furthermore, the Laborers Health & Welfare Trust Fund for Southern California provides a top notch health insurance that includes full family medical coverage with prescription, vision, dental, hearing aids and life insurance. In addition, LIUNA has led the way in creating and protecting today’s retirement system. While defined-benefit pension plans and social security continue to be under attack, LIUNA continues to ensure our members have the opportunity to retire in dignity with great benefits.
LIUNA is passionate about protecting federal and state prevailing wage laws because these laws prevent government spending from undermining local wages and living standards. These laws ensure that craftsmen are paid family-supporting wages on construction projects, enabling generations of craftspeople to build better, stronger lives for themselves and their families. Corporate interests and their advocates claim that these laws increase taxpayer costs; however, numerous studies have proved that claim to be false!
For decades, LIUNA and our partner employers have met the workforce development needs of the construction industry by building a self-funded training infrastructure and Registered Apprenticeship programs. LIUNA’s labor-management training programs invest millions of dollars annually in our state-of-the-art training, giving our members the opportunity to upgrade employability skills, move to leadership positions and update safety knowledge. This investment gives our contractors a competitive edge by employing some of the most skilled and trained men and women in the construction industry.
Laborers build everything from skyscrapers to tunnels. They make buildings safe by removing hazardous materials such as asbestos and lead. In addition, laborers provide administrative support to students and faculty at colleges and universities. They are employed in manufacturing, home improvement, maintenance and other core industrial jobs.