Laborers Local #189

Celebrating 40 years of partnership between Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) and the Central Kentucky Building Trades!

Over the past four decades, Kentucky’s skilled tradesmen and women have helped build and expand TMMK into the largest Toyota manufacturing plant in the world. Producing approximately 550,000 vehicles and 600,000 engines annually while employing nearly 10,000 team members.

This success would not have been possible without the dedication, craftsmanship, and hard work of Local 189 Members!

A special congratulations to Robert Akin, recent retiree of Local 189 and former President of the Central Kentucky Building Trades, who was honored with a Special Recognition Award for his years of leadership and service.

Here’s to 40 years of building excellence together and many more to come!

Solidarity in the pouring rain. ✊🌧️

Today, union members stood shoulder to shoulder with the workers at Third Street Stuff in Lexington, Kentucky, showing that union busting tactics will never be stronger than worker solidarity.

Rain couldn’t wash away our determination. When one union is attacked, we all stand together. Workers deserve respect, fair treatment, and the right to organize without intimidation or retaliation.

To the workers fighting for their voice at Third Street Stuff: you are not standing alone. Local 189 stands with you!

Great turnout again at tonight’s LIUNA Local 189 union meeting!

Good food, strong union brothers and sisters, and a great talk from guest speaker Richard Maloney candidate for Lexington Council District 11.

We also had a very special guest baby Beck Ellis Renfro for his first, but not last, Union Meeting!!

Thank you to everyone who came out! 💪