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05/07/2010 LIUNA May 7, 2010 (Washington, D.C.) – Today the U.S. Labor Department reported that the jobs situation in the construction industry – a key driver of the U.S. economy – improved slightly for the second consecutive month, while still lagging behind other sectors. The number of construction jobs increased by 14,000, but construction unemployment still remained near Depression-era levels at 21.8 percent. Currently, more than 1.9 million construction workers are still looking for work.
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4/30/10 LIUNA Cincinnati, OH – National, state and local leaders representing government, business, labor and environmental groups reconvened today in Cincinnati to celebrate the Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance’s (GCEA) $17 million “Retrofit Ramp-Up” award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The leaders first met in September during a stop on the “Clean Energy Roadshow,” a multi-city, multi-state tour created to find ways to spur collaborative public-private investment in the clean energy economy and create quality green jobs for American workers.
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4/28/10 LIUNA On March 16, 2010, Chris Jenkins – a husband, father of two and 25-year member of Laborers’ Local 81 – was killed while working on an interstate highway project in Lake Stanton, Ind. Chris was cold-patching potholes when he was struck by a drunken driver.
Today, on Workers’ Memorial Day, we urge the men and women of LIUNA to remember Chris and others who have become sick or injured or died while working to build America.
Death or injury shouldn't be the price of going to work. On Workers' Memorial Day we should remember our fallen brothers and sisters and honor the living by fighting for better workplace protections.
While the Obama administration has made significant strides in protecting worker safety, more action is still needed. You can join the fight to improve workplace safety. The Protecting America's Workers Act which is before Congress right now would help by extending OSHA coverage to all workers, including public employees in over 20 states who currently have no protections at all, strengthen anti-discrimination and whistleblower protections, increase civil and criminal penalties and enhance worker and union rights.
Send a message to Congress and ask that they pass the Protecting America's Workers Act
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04/21/2010 LIUNA Washington, DC (April 21, 2010) – At a White House press conference today, Vice President Biden and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the winners of a $452 million “Retrofit Ramp-Up” grant program – several of which received support from LIUNA in developing their proposals.
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4/19/10 Washington Business Journal - Op-Ed by Terry O'Sullivan Despite its “recession-proof” reputation, the Washington area wasn’t spared by the latest downturn – jobs have been lost and the unemployment rate still sits just shy of 7 percent.
Nowhere has this been more evident than in the construction sector, where the number of local jobs has sunk to levels not seen since 1999. That’s why it’s encouraging to see the D.C. City Council considering job-creating, community-supporting legislation that would give decent pay and benefits to workers on many major construction projects.
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04/15/2010 Washington Business Journal Poor road conditions are costing communities, employers and families more than $217 billion annually, and more so in this region than other parts of the country, according to transportation advocates.
Ted Miller, a Beltsville-based safety economist, said under-repaired roadways played a role in more than half of the 43,000 highway fatalities reported in 2006.
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04/07/2010 LIUNA Kansas City, MO – National, state and local leaders representing government, business, labor and environmental groups convened today in Kansas City for the “Clean Energy Roadshow.” The Roadshow was created to find ways to spur collaborative public-private investment in the clean energy economy and create quality green jobs for American workers. Kansas City is the Roadshow’s tenth stop in a multi-city, multi-state national tour that is expected to run through 2011
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03/28/2010 The News-Review (OR) An Idleyld Park woman's life has been almost fairytale-like, with her rough circumstances turning around for the better.
In her current job as a laborer's apprentice working underneath the Interstate 5 bridge over Amacher Park, the Billy Goat Gruff fairytale might seem fitting for 24-year-old Mercedes Thompson.
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03/27/2010 LIUNA March 27, 2010 (Washington, D.C.) – LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – made the following statement in response to President Obama’s decision to appoint Craig Becker and Mark Pearce to the National Labor Relations Board:
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3/5/2010 LIUNA Today the U.S. Labor Department reported another month of declining national unemployment but the situation for construction workers continues to worsen with continued devastating job loss. Construction unemployment spiked to 27.1 percent as another 64,000 construction jobs were lost. Currently more than 2.4 million construction workers are out of work.
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