Los Angeles County Approves Transportation Project to Offer Jobs to Disadvantaged Workers - Project Labor Agreement
Seeking to improve employment in Los Angeles County, local transportation officials on Thursday approved a program designed to hire workers from disadvantaged communities for road and transit projects... All under a project labor agreement.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/01/big-metro-projects-will-offer-jobs-to-disadvantaged-workers.html
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LiUNA Quits Blue/Green Alliance Amid Keystone Fallout
The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) left the BlueGreen Alliance on Friday, citing a disagreement with the group’s members over the Keystone XL pipeline.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/205441-labor-union-leaves-bluegreen-alliance-over-keystone-disagreement
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Retirement in America in ‘Danger’
Robert Powell writes about the state of retirement in America. He’s interviewed many experts in the field of retirement -- researchers, financial advisers and plan managers. They say, in short: Things are bad, and in the absence of action or in the presence of ill-advised action, could get much worse.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-retirement-is-in-danger-2012-01-26?reflink=MW_GoogleNews
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Obama: So Much of America Needs to be Rebuilt
If the State of the Union sparks any bipartisanship in this election year, it may come in the form of legislation on transportation, an area in which both parties traditionally have found common ground.
http://newyork.construction.com/yb/ny/article.aspx?story_id=168348210
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Obama Created More Jobs than Steve Jobs' Apple
There's no doubt that Apple is doing far better than the U.S. economy as a whole. But that doesn't mean Steve Jobs had a better jobs record than Barack Obama.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/25/technology/apple_steve_jobs/?source=cnn_bin