By host on
2/23/2010 11:13 AM
 Last year, we began posting information about the MichCanSka 2010 snowmobile ride, organized by SMWIA member Bill Bradfield.
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By host on
2/1/2010 9:33 AM
Last week, President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass Health Care Reform Legislation. While we will continue to fight for the elimination of the tax on employer-provided insurance, the need for health care for all Americans is obvious. But, the need will not be met if we do not push hard at the local level in getting public support behind the effort.
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By host on
1/28/2010 2:05 PM
In their rush to malign Project Labor Agreements, anti-worker groups such as the Associated Builders and Contractors have time and time again repeated one study concerning school construction costs that was conducted by the widely discredited Beacon Hill Institute.
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By host on
1/28/2010 1:59 PM
Despite noting that “the long-awaited recovery seems to be under way,”a newly released Consensus Construction Forecast offers little reason for optimism in 2010. It does, however, provide hope for 2011.
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By host on
1/27/2010 10:44 AM
SMWIA signatories Ductmate Industries Inc. of Charleroi, Pa., and McQuay International of Minneapolis, Minn., were among firms recently awarded a total of $2.3 billion in new clean energy manufacturing tax credits for 183 clean energy projects in 43 states.
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By host on
1/22/2010 3:24 PM
 That January 25th is the 122nd anniversary of the founding of this Union when sheet metal workers from across North America met in Toledo, OH?
On behalf of myself, General Secretary-Treasurer Joe Nigro and the SMWIA General Executive Committee, I would like to wish us all another 122 of prosperity and growth.
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By host on
1/13/2010 11:20 AM
Today is Labor's National Call-In Blitz for health care reform.
Call 1-877-3-AFLCIO (1-877-323-5246) toll-free and urge your representative to support working families
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By host on
1/8/2010 3:57 PM
SMWIA General President Michael Sullivan recently appeared on the Bill Press Show, discussing the SMWIA's opposition to the health insurance reform legislation that recently passed the U.S. Senate on December 24th.
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By host on
1/8/2010 2:01 PM
 The International Training Institute (ITI) has been awarded nearly $5 million in Energy Training Partnership grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) to train approximately 1,200 unemployed or under employed sheet metal workers for energy efficient building construction, retrofitting and manufacturing jobs.
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By host on
1/8/2010 1:58 PM
This morning’s release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the December 2009 employment report showed that the jobs situation continued to worsen at the end of 2009 as 85,000 jobs were lost in December.
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