by insulatorsjatc | Mar 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Alwyn Scott March 16, 2015 5:40 PM A worker exits Boeing’s massive 787 Dreamliner final assembly building in North Charleston, South … By Alwyn Scott SEATTLE (Reuters) – Boeing Co’s <BA.N> largest union on Monday filed for a vote to...
by insulatorsjatc | Mar 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Florida unions and the state AFL-CIO are rallying against anti-worker legislation they believe is designed to “elbow them out” of local construction markets. The bills, which are moving quickly through the legislature, would prohibit Project Labor...
by insulatorsjatc | Mar 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
In a brief letter to the editor of the New York Times, North America’s Building Trades Unions President Sean McGarvey explained that “Right-to-Work” results in a drop in skilled labor. He questions the idea of attracting businesses to Wisconsin by thwarting...
by insulatorsjatc | Mar 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
THE CHRONICLE HERALD CAPE BRETON BUREAU The provincial Utility and Review Board has approved for construction a Cape Breton liquefied natural gas exportation project. Project officials say the regulator’s approval makes the Bear Head LNG project the first of its kind...
by insulatorsjatc | Mar 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
At a time when GOP is gaining ground in very public attacks on labor, the left is coming to the defense of collective bargaining By Lydia DePillis and Jim Tankersley March 13 Mary Will, left, with Local 68, and Corey Smith, right, with Local 113, chant during a rally...