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11/6/09 LIUNA Today’s unemployment report confirmed that in the U.S. job market, the hardest hit sector continues to be the construction industry, a key driver of our economy. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction unemployment rose from 17.1 percent in September to 18.7 percent in October. That reflects the loss of 62,000 construction jobs in one month, bringing to more than 1.6 million the number of construction jobs lost since the recession began.
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11/5/09 LIUNA Portland, ME – Governor John Baldacci and officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) were among the prominent state and national leaders who convened on the Southern Maine Community College campus today as part of a “Retrofit Roadshow.” The Roadshow brings elected officials, business leaders, labor union representatives and environmental advocates together to identify ways to spur collaborative public-private investment in a new American weatherization industry.
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11/5/09 LIUNA Seattle, WA – LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America –
today graduated the first class of skilled weatherization workers to complete a weatherization training program in the Seattle area. The 19 new graduates completed a challenging two-week training program where they learned general construction skills in addition to core weatherization competencies, such as caulking, insulating and duct sealing.
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11/3/09 LIUNA Jackson, MS – The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) graduated its first class of 14 skilled weatherization workers today. The new graduates completed a challenging three-week training program where they learned general construction skills in addition to core weatherization competencies, such as energy auditing and insulating.
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10/30/09 LIUNA The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 872 graduated its third class of skilled weatherization workers today, October 30, National Weatherization Day. A representative from Jetstream Construction attended the graduation ceremony and presented the newly certified weatherization workers with job offers.
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10/30/09 LIUNA Denver, CO – The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) graduated its first class of 11 skilled weatherization workers today, October 30, National Weatherization Day. The new graduates completed a challenging three-week training program where they learned general construction skills in addition to core weatherization competencies, such as energy auditing and insulating.
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10/29/09 LIUNA LIUNA – one of the nation’s largest unions of construction workers – backed significantly increased investment in residential weatherization during a U.S. Senate hearing today on the Clean Energy Jobs and America Power Act.
“Weatherizing homes, which account for 22 percent of America’s energy consumption, can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and create hundreds of thousands of family-supporting jobs,” Dave Johnson, LIUNA’s Eastern Region Organizing Director, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
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10/26/09 Treehugger You might think next week's major holiday is Halloween, but 'round the Sierra Club offices we're a bit nerdier. You see, we're excited about Friday, October 30th: National Weatherization Day.
On National Weatherization Day, created by the U.S. Department of Energy, cities will be hosting events to highlight services and organizations that help people to make their homes more energy efficient. Across the country, federal recovery funds are helping people weatherize their homes for winter, creating jobs, and reducing energy waste.
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10/2/09 Contra Costa Times IN AN ERA of scarcity and a daily grind of grim economic reality, we must resist the urge to talk ourselves out of building legacy public projects that will pay great dividends down the road. The Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce urges leaders and community members to continue to support the Oakland Airport Connector project. We are pleased that after decades of planning, BART is currently reviewing multiple bids to construct this important "green" project that will create badly-needed jobs and will help the Oakland International Airport to thrive and compete.
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9/22/09 MSNBC Watch the video.
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