October 12, 2008
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10/10/08 - After a four-year delay, OSHA finally issued for comment a proposed crane safety standard.10/06/08 - New Apollo Project gains traction in California.
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09/30/08 - Scranton PA School District PLA is not hindering bidding from local contractors.
09/26/08 - Warren Buffet's purchase of Constellation Energy could have major impact on the future of nuclear energy
09/26/08 - House Passes Energy Bill with pro-Davis-Bacon and pro-PLA Language
09/24/08 -
$734 million project loss will cost region jobs, taxes
09/22/08 - Buffalo Building Trades Make Symbolic Gestrue to Signify the Dawn of a New Era
09/19/08 - Arizona's tough immigration law requiring employers to use the federal E-Verify employment verification system and penalizing those who hire illegal immigrants by revoking their business licenses is not preempted by federal immigration law
09/10/08 -
A new Report touts the job prospects for green investments.
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09/09/08 - Tom Villanova appointed to key city board.
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08/25/08 - US industrial manufacturing construction spending has begun to rebound and recover.
08/25/08 - The Rocky Mountain region is set for a nuclear revival.
08/22/08 -
Workers on unionized construction sites in B.C. will be subject to mandatory drug testing under an agreement negotiated by construction companies and unions.
08/01/08 - This article appeared in the August 1 etion of nwi.com.
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07/31/08 -
An 11-day strike ended in a victory for 300 fire sprinkler installers, members of the United Association of Plumbers, Pipe Fitters and Sprinkler Fitters Local 699.
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07/31/08 - South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. seeks to begin work on the site of two proposed nuclear reactors.
07/30/08 - This article appeared July 30 in the Construction Labor Report.
07/30/08 - This article appeared in the July 30 edition of the Construction Labor Report
07/29/08 - Wind Farm Construcxtion in Wisconsin expected to hit almost $900 million by 2010.
07/25/08 - This article appeared July 25 in the Wall Street Journal
07/25/08 - House Democrats failed to achieve a two-thirds vote on legislation that would have allowed for oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
07/25/08 - This article appeared July 25 in the Washington Post
07/25/08 - This article appeared July 24 in the Houston Chronicle
07/24/08 - This Article re: Employees Misclassification in the Construction Industry appeared in the July 23 edition of the Houston Chronicle.
07/24/08 - U.S. House of Representatives moves swiftly to restore highway trust fund balance.
07/24/08 - The backers of an anti-union ballot measure in Chula Vista, CA have been officially notified that their petition has been ruled invalid for the November election.
07/16/08 - The Los Angeles (CA) Board of Airport Commissioners voted on July 7 to include some $1.8 billion in projects related to the first phase of the Los Angeles International Airport Capital Improvement Program under a project labor agreement.
07/16/08 - New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, in an appearance before the New Jersey State Building Trades Council convention in Atlantic City, outlined his plans to pursue legislation to address the state's infrastructure needs.
07/14/08 - The Pennsylvania Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors is whining about a project labor agreement being used to construct an $800 million hotel/casino project in Bethlehem, PA.
07/14/08 -
If all goes according to plan, the Port of Los Angeles will have a blanket Project Labor Agreement that covers the lion's share of the $4 billion of construction projects thhe prot expects to build over the next 10 years.
07/14/08 -
California Court of Appeals denies petition by the ABC to place an anti-union measure on the November ballot.
07/11/08 - When it comes to examining the effects of prevailing wage laws on government contracting costs, the weight of the evidence - according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute - is strongly on the side that there is no adverse impact.
07/10/08 - President Bush finally signed into law legislation granting an exention of benefits for the long-term unemployed
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06/25/08 -
A double amputee from teh Iraq war and his family get a new home in a weekend
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06/24/08 - BCTD President Mark Ayers testifies at congressional hearing on construction safety and health
06/18/08 - BCTD President Mark Ayers joined former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and other distinguished leaders at a June 17 press conference to tout the projected job growth that will accompany a nuclear power renaissance in the United States.
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06/18/08 - Remarks of President Mark Ayers to Texas Labor Management Conference - June 3, 2008
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06/13/08 -
This is the BCTD's response to a June 10th editorial attacking the Davis-Bacon Act.
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06/10/08 - Presaident Bush signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to check the immigration status of their employeess through a system known as e-Verify.
06/05/08 - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation to provide financial resources for the modernization of public schools...with the inclusion of Davis-Bacon prevailing wage protections.
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06/02/08 - May 30, 2008 Statement from Mark Ayers regarding recent fatalities in the construction industry
05/29/08 - Westinghouse and its partner, the Shaw Group, announced plans to construct two new nuclear reactor facilities in South Carolina.
05/16/08 - BCTD President Mark Ayers Addresses the Nuclear Energy Institute
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05/16/08 - BCTD President Mark Ayers Addresses Anheuser Busch Project Management Construction Division
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05/16/08 - BCTD President Ayers Addresses TAUC Conference
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05/15/08 - U.S. House Votes in Favor of Farm Bill and Davis-Bacon Protections for Loan Guarantees for Construction of Bio-Fuel Refineries
05/05/08 - The Alaskan Chapter of the Associated Builders & Contractors have filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent a school renovation project in Juneau, AK from proceeding under a project labor agreement.
05/05/08 - Hundreds of New Jersey Drywall Finishers reject overtures from the Carpenters and opt to remain with IIUPAT
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04/23/08 - Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon vowed Tuesday to continue pursuing companies that hire illegal immigrants in his remaining days as attorney general, and afterwards if he is elected governor of the Show Me State.
04/23/08 - The Building & Construction Trades Department is pushing for federal legislation (H.R. 5804) to cut down the number of employees who can be classified as independent contractors.
04/22/08 - Even with widespread purchases of energy-saving appliances and better-insulated homes, the USA will still need to build at least 151 gigawatts of new generation -- enough to power 75 million homes -- by 2030
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04/22/08 - Legislation that would temporarily revive an exemption allowing foreign seasonal nonagricultural workers to return to work in the United States without being counted against the H-2B visa cap was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on April 17.
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04/21/08 - The University of Louisvill Labor-Management Center recognized the cooperation between United Parcel Service (UPS) and the Louisville Building Trades Council on the $1 billion expansion of UPS' Worldport Air Cargo Hub.
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04/18/08 - In an OP-ED submitted to the Rocky Mountain News, Leo Kiely, President and CEO of Molson Coors Brewing Company, expresses the company's opposition to a proposed "Right-to-Work" bill introduced in the Colorado state legislature.
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04/12/08 - BCTD President Mark Ayers this week met with U.S. House and Senate leaders to press concerns the building trades have on a number of domestic economic issues.
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04/03/08 - It has been a very, very good spring for John Bosworth and Bosworth Steel Erectors, Inc., the steel erection company he heads. Innovators in steel construction and modification, Bosworth Steel Erectors just won class III project of the year honors at the recent SEAA Convention (Steel Erectors Association of America) for steel erection on the new Nationals Ballpark in Washington, D.C.
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02/27/08 - The Board of Commissioners of the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles voted Feb. 21 to proceed with a three-year local hiring and project labor agreement with the Los Angeles/Orange County Building Trades Council, over the objections of nonunion contractors, CRA/LA said in a Feb. 22 statement.
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