President Barack Obama said he will intensify efforts to repair the nation’s roads, bridges and mass transit systems, calling the work necessary to create jobs and compete with nations that have made those investments.
In his State of the Union address, Obama said he will look to attract more private capital for big projects.
Barack Obama said he will intensify efforts to repair the nation’s roads, bridges and mass transit systems, calling the work necessary to create jobs and compete with nations that have made those investments.
In his State of the Union address yesterday, Obama said he will look to attract more private capital for big projects.
Great Plains Laborers District Council local unions were active in holiday charity activities. Local 393 in Marseilles, Illinois, distributed food baskets to military families. Local 362 in Bloomington, Illinois helped staff, prepare and plan the annual Christmas Party for Unemployed Families.
BELLE VERNON, Pa.—Barges nearly two football fields long, piled high with coal, float smoothly down the lower Monongahela River here—until they reach the 75-year-old Charleroi Locks and Dam, where many get waylaid at the gate.
The lone functioning lock is set in crumbling concrete. Pieces of steel hang loose, threatening to gouge barges as they pass.
In 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. Eventually Memphis heard the grievances of its sanitation workers. And in subsequent years millions of public employees across the nation have benefited from the job protections they've earned.
But now the right is going after public employees.
If all goes well by the end of the 2010-11 school year, Michael Downing, Austin DeYoung, Jeff Sly and 70 other students at Lincoln High School will have accrued about 120 training hours that may apply toward apprenticeship as a Construction Craft Laborer. They also will have seven credit hours acceptable at many colleges throughout the United States.
High-speed-rail will be our generation's legacy. It is difficult to imagine what America would be like without its interstate highway system. For decades, our state-of-the-art roadways have been the world's envy – and rightfully so. They deliver products of agriculture and industry to market. They link people with schools, jobs, family, and health care.
The stimulus measure is keeping construction workers employed, the months just past represented a new high point--depending on how you add it all up.
The White House estimates that the 2009 stimulus act's spending on "public investment," which includes most of the measure's construction outlays, rose sharply in the three months ended Sept.
ST. PAUL, Minn.Nov 18 -Iowa Gov.-elect Terry Branstad (R) announced shortly after his election Nov. 2 that he intends to repeal the executive order issued just months ago that encourages local units of government to consider project labor agreements for projects costing more than$25 million.
Scott Norvell, president and chief executive officer of Master Builders of Iowa, told BNA Nov.
