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5/28/2009 11:25 AM
Today, SMWIA Local 20 member George Dirig will celebrate his 100th birthday and in August, his 75th year of continuous service as a member of SMWIA Local 20.
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5/28/2009 10:38 AM
The two buzz words everyone is using these days are Energy and Green so on the week of May 4-8, 2009 NEMI kicked off three new task forces, Energy Audit, Service/Retrofit and GREEN/LEED.
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5/22/2009 1:45 PM
In a concentrated effort to find the 60 senators needed to overcome a planned GOP-led filibuster, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, spent much of May 19-21 in intensive talks with colleagues about changing the Employee Free Choice Act.
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5/22/2009 1:42 PM
Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act could open up residential construction worker organizing to the nation’s building trades unions, the head of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department says.
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By host on
5/21/2009 2:41 PM
U.S. trade officials will delay seeking congressional approval for a pending free-trade deal with Panama until President Barack Obama offers a new “framework” for future trade deals.
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5/21/2009 12:18 PM
Unions and their members will be a “gigantic part of the solution” to rebuilding the middle class, Vice President Joe Biden told the 3,000 delegates to the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department’s (BCTD) legislative conference.
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By host on
5/21/2009 10:05 AM
Working families across the country are ramping up for the biggest recess week yet, including more than a dozen candlelight vigils, 20 economic community roundtables, phone banking parties and deliveries of personal letters to offices of members of Congress. In total, working families will participate in more than 200 events large and small, write 25,000 handwritten letters, and make 40,000 calls to demand Congress pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
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By host on
5/20/2009 10:44 AM
A landmark study examining workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain shows that the problems the Employee Free Choice Act would address are not only getting worse, but are severely impairing workers' chances at getting ahead.
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By host on
5/15/2009 12:07 PM
The Building and Construction Trades kick off their 2009 Legislative Conference on Monday, May 18th in Washington, DC. Roughly 3,000 state and local building trades leaders will descend upon the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel for three days of intense discussions surrounding key legislative issues. The theme for this year’s conference is “One Country. One Purpose. One Movement.”
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By host on
5/15/2009 12:01 PM
The Obama administration is committed to leveling the playing field for workers and giving them the bargaining power they need to rebuild the middle class. That was the message Vice President Biden brought to the 2009 AFSCME legislative conference in Washington, D.C., this week.
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