EPISODE · Jul 2, 2026 · 31 MIN
Dorsey Hager on Drones, Data Centers and Central Ohio's Building Boom
from America’s Work Force Union Podcast · host BMA Media Group
The first drone is expected off the assembly line this week at an Anduril manufacturing campus in Pickaway County that didn't exist eighteen months ago. Data center and power plant construction is breaking ground in Asheville. A $325 million courthouse is going up in downtown Columbus under a community benefit agreement. And the Columbus building trades are on pace to work more than 20 million hours in 2026 — more than double just three years ago. On today's trades day episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast, Columbus Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council Executive Secretary-Treasurer Dorsey Hager delivers a monthly update that covers all of it — plus a nurses organizing drive at Children's Hospital, the airport expansion hitting 83 percent union, why women in Local Unions have quadrupled since 2016 and what America's 250th birthday means to a union trades leader who owes everything he has to the labor movement. Visit columbusconstruction.org for more.
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Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council Executive Secretary-Treasurer Dorsey Hager discusses the Anduril drone factory’s first building going operational this week, data center and power plant construction breaking ground in Asheville, a $325 million downtown Columbus courthouse under a community benefit agreement and a council on pace to work 20 million hours in 2026. He also covers apprenticeship growth, the 400 percent increase in women in Local Unions, an active nurses organizing drive at Children’s Hospital and what the 250th anniversary of America means to a union trades leader heading into the holiday weekend.
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