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8/4/09 The Plain Dealer The large green-and-white sign declaring "Project Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" greets drivers as they merge onto Interstate 271 in Mayfield
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7/9/09 LIUNA Washington, D.C. – Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA, made the following statement today on the reported move away from a U.S. Senate proposal to tax workers’ health care benefits.
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7/2/09 LIUNA Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly jobs report released today shows 79,000 construction jobs lost in the last month. Currently, more than 1,601,000 construction workers are jobless and construction unemployment is at 17.4 percent. Since the start of 2007, 1,497,000 construction jobs have been lost.
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7/2/09 Austin Daily Herald Drivers on Minnesota’s interstate highways may have noticed a surprising amount of traffic cones this construction season, a direct result of federal economic stimulus dollars at work.
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07/01/2009 Des Moines Register A national labor union is planning to run television advertisements in Iowa taking issue with Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley’s support for a proposal to tax health care benefits as a way of paying for reform of the insurance system.
The Laborers International Union of North America plans to air a spot in Des Moines taking aim at Grassley, the ranking Republican on the influential finance committee. That’s the committee expected to put together a health care reform bill with financing options perhaps by next week.
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06/30/09 LIUNA Washington, D.C.– Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA, made the following statement on the suspension of LIUNA’s ads in Montana and North Dakota opposing a tax on workers’ healthcare.
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06/30/2009 KPLU SEATTLE, WA (KPLU) - Inside an old home in west Seattle, 23-year-old Joseph Cortez is cutting insulation as an instructor looks on. He gets praise for catching on quickly. He's a trainee with the Laborers International Union of North America. His new position is part of a demonstration project, meant to show what the federal government's five billion dollars in stimulus spending for weatherization can do. The union says their training program could create thousands of high-quality jobs and upgrade millions of homes in Washington State alone.
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06/30/2009 Albert Lea Tribune Last Friday, the United States House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, or ACES.
First District Congressman Tim Walz voted for the legislation. We want to thank Congressman Walz for his vote creating a new clean energy economy based upon the principles of addressing global warming while encouraging job creating investments in clean energy and efficiency.
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06/29/2009 Workday Minnesota WASHINGTON - Declaring Congress must listen to the voters, and not the health insurance companies, thousands of health care advocates -- led by unionists -- demanded universal, affordable health care in a mass rally.
The crowd, featuring more than 1,000 Communications Workers legislative conference delegates -- decked out in red “We demand Health Care Now!” T-shirts -- then converged on Capitol Hill to lobby for affordable health care.
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6/30/09 LIUNA Seattle, WA – Members of LIUNA – the Laborers International Union of North America – weatherized the Seattle home of a low-income woman today for free. It was the first home weatherized in the Northwest as part of LIUNA’s breakthrough program to train hundreds of local workers to do skilled weatherization work. LIUNA plans to weatherize millions of poorly insulated homes a year across the country and open pathways to new careers, especially for low-income workers.
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