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Union Diifference volunteers build a Pittsfield skate park.
Senator John Sullivan visits a union training facility.
Quincy Dogwood Parade May 1st, 2010
Union Diifference volunteers build a Pittsfield skate park.
Union Diifference volunteers build a Pittsfield skate park.
Senator Dick Durbin attends the Union Difference Picnic
Quincy Mayor Spring attends the Union Difference picnic
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If I told you that government officials possessed ironclad proof that an imminent threat to this nation had the capacity to create a 9/11's worth of injuries and deaths every year at an annual economic cost of a quarter trillion dollars, ask yourself: Would you say we should do something about it?
I'm guessing you would. Read More...
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With the recent popularity of the British TV show "Downton Abbey," Steelworkers President Leo Gerard reflects on the "Downtoning" of our nation & economy...
President Obama went to Austin, Texas, last week in pursuit of an industrial and employment revival. He wants to launch manufacturing institutes to foster American innovation and job creation. Read More...
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a National Labor Relations Board rule requiring most private sector employers to post a notice informing employees of their right to unionize. Read More...
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In the election of 1952 my father voted for Dwight Eisenhower. When I asked him why he explained that "FDR's debt" was still burdening the economy - and that I and my children and my grandchildren would be paying it down for as long as we lived.
I was only six years old and had no idea what a "debt" was, let alone FDR's. But I had nightmares about it for weeks. Read More...
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Like almost everything in the Texas, the construction industry in the Lone Star State is big. One in every 13 workers here is employed in the state's $54 billion-per-year construction industry.
Homebuilding and commercial construction may be an economic driver for the state, but it's also an industry riddled with hazards. Read More...
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Last week came news that the share of America’s workforce that’s unionized hit a 97-year low. A mere 11.3% of workers now belong to a union, and a great chunk of those are in the shrinking public sector. In the private sector, unionization fell to an abysmal 6.6%, down from a peak of 35% during the 1950s.
Most Americans yawned at this news. On one level that’s understandable. Read More...
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Chicago — Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that her office recovered more than $1 million in wages and benefits owed to Illinois workers in 2012. Read More...
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There are thousands of faltering sewage plants like these across the country, staffed by operators who dread rainy days. Civil engineers in every state are monitoring ominous cracks in roads and bridges that carry freight and school buses. And millions of transit commuters are awaiting new equipment and long-deferred maintenance on systems that are reliable only when the sun is shining. Read More...
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The justifications cited by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder for why he signed the “right to work” law that Republicans rammed through a lame duck session are as spurious as the name of the bill itself. The statutes now in place in two dozen states using that label provide, of course, no right to employment yet take advantage of the fact that the uninformed may jump to that conclusion. Read More...
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