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8/25/2010 6:00 PM
(From Mike Hall at the AFL-CIO Now blog)
Maybe when he’s back on some Wyoming ranch, Alan Simpson can avoid stepping in it. But the co-chairman of the federal budget deficit commission seems to squish deep into it, every time he opens his apparently out-of-control mouth about
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8/24/2010 11:16 AM
A Department of Energy Inspector General report finds that Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant recipients have spent only 8.4 percent of the $3.2 billion authorized for the program. The delays was reported to have been due to administrative support for the program – until May 2010, only two DOE employees were working on the program. Part of the blame, from the Inspector Generals’ Report, falls on Department personnel not being accustomed to implementing Davis Bacon provisions to individual projects.
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8/20/2010 10:04 AM
During its Aug. 4-5 meeting in Washington, D.C., the AFL-CIO Executive Council issued a statement supporting the One Nation coalition and its October 2 Washington D.C. march for jobs.
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8/16/2010 12:58 PM
The employment situation in the construction industry continues to lag across the United States, as July employment figures from the U.S. Department of Labor show the unemployment rate for the construction industry virtually unchanged at roughly 20% nationwide.
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8/16/2010 12:52 PM
The rising costs of education are a hurdle for working families. But thanks to a new Union Plus discount, as a union member, you and your children can now afford the preparation needed to get the college edge. Save 15-60% on The Princeton Review’s college preparation classes with your Union Plus College Test Preparation Discount.
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8/4/2010 2:59 PM
Remarks from president Barack Obama delivered to the AFL-CIO on August 4, 2010.
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7/28/2010 10:47 AM
After spending tens of millions of dollars trying to kill the new health care reform law, the nation’s big health insurance companies now are "sparing no expense to weaken this new law and the protection it promises to America’s consumers," says Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.).
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7/27/2010 2:41 PM
President Obama signed the unemployment insurance extension bill that had been blocked by Republican Senators protesting the termination of tax breaks for the top 2 percent. The legislation will get jobless benefits flowing once again to more than 2.5 million long-term jobless workers who were cut off due to GOP filibusters.
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6/30/2010 8:44 AM
 To recognize the diversity of our Union’s members in their jobs and community activities, we are launching the new SMWIA Photo Call to all active and retired members in good standing.
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6/29/2010 8:03 PM
Every major construction project at the Port of Los Angeles soon will be built under a master Project Labor Agreement. The master agreement, which will be part of the packet whenever the port seeks bids on a big contract, is expected to be drafted and sent back to the harbor commission for final approval as soon as the end of summer.
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