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AROUND OUR HEADS ON THE WEB…

• Report Details the Striking Failure of Virginia’s Leading Economic Development Agency – Comments (0)
• Union-Busters Busted: Walmart and Home Depot Anti-Union Videos Feature Identical “Workers” – Comments (0)
• Pair of IBEW Members Honored for Rescuing Man from Burning Pickup Truck – Comments (0)
• Trump-Supporting ME Governor: “The enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in, are people of color” – Comments (0)
• POLL: Americans More Optimistic About Labor Unions Than They’ve Been in a Decade – Comments (0)
• 9th Circuit Joins 7th: Employees Cannot Be Asked to Waive Right to Class or Collective Litigation – Comments (0)
• Suicide Rate Among Construction Workers is FOUR TIMES the National Average – Comments (2)
• SURVEY: Women Keeping the Electrical Contracting Industry Young – Comments (0)
• A “Culture of Fear” Has Contributed to Declining Union Membership – Comments (0)
• Make America (I Mean Europe) Great Again: Trump Infrastructure Ad Features Foreign Bridge – Comments (0)
• Illegally Funneling $7,000,000 to Undocumented Workers Could Get You…Five Years in Jail – Comments (0)
• $2.3M Settlement for Abused Jamaican H-2B Visa Workers at Famous SC Golf Resort – Comments (0)

CALIFORNIA

• San Jose Building Trades, Citing Successful L.A. Ballot Measure, Pressure City on Developer Tax Breaks – Comments (0)
• Impact of Oakland Port PLA Felt More Than Ever as Local Hiring Soars to 60% – Comments (0)
• Give ’em Props: Building Trades Score Two Major Ballot Measure Victories on Election Night – Comments (0)
• PLA Agreed to For All Work Done Through $249M Bond Measure in Fairfield, CA – Comments (0)
• Oakland City Council to Vote on African-American, Female Hiring Mandates on City- Funded Projects – Comments (0)
• CA One Step Closer to Project Labor Agreement on Monterey’s Interlake Tunnel Project – Comments (0)
• San Jose Construction Workers Protest Use of Outside Labor: “It’s Pure and Simple Greed” – Comments (0)
• CA Gov Signs Bill to Increase Women’s Participation in Pre-Apprenticeship Programs – Comments (0)
• Project Labor Agreements Have Big Week in Wisconsin, California – Comments (0)
• CA Gov. Brown Signs SB954 Preventing Lobbyist Misuse of Construction Workers’ Wage Deductions – Comments (0)
• Santa Monica Approves 30% Local Hiring Mandate, Targets 10% Figure for Disadvantaged Workers – Comments (0)
• Project Labor Agreement + 1000s of Union Jobs = Tallest Building West of the Mississippi – Comments (0)

EDUCATION

• Rowan University and Building Trades Open Door to Online Education – Comments (0)
• Welcome Words: LiUNA’s Toronto Local Offering Training, Testing in New Members’ Native Languages – Comments (0)
• Ontario, Seeking to Reform Apprenticeship Programs, Turns Deaf Ear to Unions; IBEW Balks – Comments (0)
• CPS Partners with Trade Unions to Launch High School Training Program for Chicago’s Youth – Comments (0)
• Boston She Party: Percentage of Women Filling Beantown Apprenticeship Positions Outpaces Nation – Comments (0)
• PLA Agreed to For All Work Done Through $249M Bond Measure in Fairfield, CA – Comments (0)
• Building Trades Tout IL’s HIRE Education Program to Boost Minority, Female Involvement in Construction – Comments (0)
• Hillary Clinton: “I really support union apprenticeship programs.” – Comments (0)
• CA Gov Signs Bill to Increase Women’s Participation in Pre-Apprenticeship Programs – Comments (0)
• They’d Rather Not, But: Chicago Teachers Authorize Strike, If Needed, by 95% Margin – Comments (0)
• Reckless, Extreme Nature of Long Island University Teacher Lockout Stuns Onlookers – Comments (0)
• LiUNA 423 Sets Record with $5 Million Donation to Ohio State University – Comments (0)

ELECTIONS

• Desperate (Ballot) Measures: With MO GOP Set to Pass “Right-to-Work,” Labor Leader Strikes Early – Comments (0)
• MI House Jams “Democracy-proof” Voter Suppression Bill Into Lame Duck Session – Comments (0)
• Red Bluegrass: Prevailing Wage Repeal, “Right-to-Work” Increasingly Likely in KY Following Election – Comments (0)
• With Trump Win, Obama Admits Defeat of Trans-Pacific Partnership, Pleasing Labor – Comments (0)
• Act Ten-uous: IA Fears WI-Style Collective Bargaining Upheaval Following GOP Victories – Comments (0)
• 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back: VA’s Minor “Right-to-Work” Victory Countered by Losses in SD, AL – Comments (0)
• Anti-Union Group Caught Sending Undisclosed Election Materials to Voters in WV – Comments (0)
• Bright Spot: On Tuesday, VA Rejected a Uniquely Oppressive Eternal “Right-to-Work” Amendment – Comments (0)
• NLRB Rules Trump’s Vegas Hotel Violated NLRA by Refusing to Collectively Bargain – Comments (0)
• Bill Cole Becomes Second WV GOP Candidate to Face Allegations of Construction Worker Abuse – Comments (0)
• Kelly Ayotte, Who Opposes PLAs and Workers’ Rights, Trailing Badly in NH Sen. Race – Comments (0)
• Attack on Rural NC Political Office Results in Odd Admission of Ballot Tampering by GOP – Comments (0)

FEATURED

• Exposé Reveals “Years of Exposure to Highly Toxic Chemicals” at Ontario GE Plant – Comments (0)
• Powerful NYC Council Speaker Suggests Support for Building Trades Apprenticeship Legislation – Comments (0)
• WI GOP Introduces Bill Blocking Local Wage, Safety, Hiring Standards in Construction – Comments (0)
• Facing Rise in Construction Fatalities, Anti-Union Contractor Lobbies Simply Repeat Themselves – Comments (0)
• Desperate (Ballot) Measures: With MO GOP Set to Pass “Right-to-Work,” Labor Leader Strikes Early – Comments (0)
• “Merit” Shop: Death in Brooklyn Brings Non-Union NYC Fatality Total to 26 Over Two Years – Comments (0)
• Impact of Oakland Port PLA Felt More Than Ever as Local Hiring Soars to 60% – Comments (0)
• MI House Passes Anti-Union Bills to Prevent Picketing and Facilitate Hiring of Scabs – Comments (0)
• MI House Jams “Democracy-proof” Voter Suppression Bill Into Lame Duck Session – Comments (0)
• MEPI: Prevailing Wage Cost Savings Claims Mean WI GOP “Expects People to Work For Free” – Comments (0)
• DOL Wants to Fast-Track Appeal of New Overtime Rule Injunction, Avoid Certain Post-Trump Fate – Comments (0)
• Welcome Words: LiUNA’s Toronto Local Offering Training, Testing in New Members’ Native Languages – Comments (0)

INDIANA

• County Council Members Defend Delayed Responsible Bidder Ordinance in Indiana – Comments (0)
• Another IN Town Passes Responsible Bidder Ordinance to Blunt Impact of CCW Repeal – Comments (0)
• Who’s Benefited Most From Indiana Repealing the Common Construction Wage? Kentucky. – Comments (0)
• Union Pipefitters Blow Whistle on Law-Breaking Staffing Agency (Surprise, They’re an ABC Member) – Comments (0)
• Cost of Indiana Public Projects HAS GONE UP Since They Repealed Prevailing Wage Protections – Comments (0)
• Portage, IN Becomes First City to Pass Measure Countering Repeal of Common Construction Wage – Comments (2)
• Indiana Mayor Proposes Responsible Bidder Ordinance to Fill Hole Left by Prevailing Wage Repeal – Comments (0)
• Indiana to Repeal Vital Private Sector Wage Protection; 12 Republicans Buck Party, Back Labor – Comments (0)
• 1000s Rally to Preserve IN’s Construction Wage; Senate Bumps Vote to Consider Amendments – Comments (0)
• Indiana Inches Closer to Repealing the Prevailing Wage; Outcry Not Limited to Dems and Labor – Comments (0)
• Indiana Building Trades Launch TV Ads in Hail Mary Effort to Halt GOP’s Wage-Slashing Extremism – Comments (0)
• REPORT: Coordinated Effort to Destroy the Prevailing Wage Being Lead by None Other than ALEC – Comments (0)

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Questions About Labor Supply, Wages, Tax Breaks Surround Trump’s $1T Infrastructure Plan – Comments (0)
• Give ’em Props: Building Trades Score Two Major Ballot Measure Victories on Election Night – Comments (0)
• $331M in Clean Water Infrastructure Spending Coming to Rural Areas in 39 States – Comments (0)
• Accidental Scientific Discovery Could Hold the Key to Sustainable Clean Energy Future – Comments (0)
• CA One Step Closer to Project Labor Agreement on Monterey’s Interlake Tunnel Project – Comments (0)
• St. Louis Building Trades Leader: Clean Energy Program Would Create 6K Jobs, $1B Economic Impact – Comments (0)
• Since 1936, Every GOP President Has Created Manufacturing Losses. Every Democrat? Gains. – Comments (0)
• Santa Monica Approves 30% Local Hiring Mandate, Targets 10% Figure for Disadvantaged Workers – Comments (0)
• First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Now Complete, IBEW Local 99 Crew “A Part of History” – Comments (0)
• Sierra Club, IL Pipe Trades Pen Op-Ed to Heighten Awareness of Lead’s Danger to U.S. Health – Comments (0)
• Makes a Lot of Cents: Tiny L.A. Sales Tax Increase Would Spur Infrastructure, Transit Spending – Comments (0)
• SD Courts to Hear Building Trades’ Complaint Regarding Transparency, Community Benefits – Comments (0)

LOCAL HIRE

• WI GOP Introduces Bill Blocking Local Wage, Safety, Hiring Standards in Construction – Comments (0)
• San Jose Building Trades, Citing Successful L.A. Ballot Measure, Pressure City on Developer Tax Breaks – Comments (0)
• Impact of Oakland Port PLA Felt More Than Ever as Local Hiring Soars to 60% – Comments (0)
• Rust Bet: AFL-CIO Part of $2B Investment in Job-Creating Construction Throughout Midwest – Comments (0)
• Boston She Party: Percentage of Women Filling Beantown Apprenticeship Positions Outpaces Nation – Comments (0)
• A Boom for Whom? Building Trades Want Nashville’s Growth to Benefit Workers – Comments (0)
• Bill Cole Becomes Second WV GOP Candidate to Face Allegations of Construction Worker Abuse – Comments (0)
• County Council Members Defend Delayed Responsible Bidder Ordinance in Indiana – Comments (0)
• Oakland City Council to Vote on African-American, Female Hiring Mandates on City- Funded Projects – Comments (0)
• PLA Enables 20% Minority, 25% Female Hiring Goals on $300M Oregon Court House Job – Comments (0)
• San Jose Construction Workers Protest Use of Outside Labor: “It’s Pure and Simple Greed” – Comments (0)
• Building Trades Tout IL’s HIRE Education Program to Boost Minority, Female Involvement in Construction – Comments (0)

MADE IN THE USA

• Trump’s Carrier Deal, Taking Heat from All Sides, Also Means 500 Union Workers Will Be Laid Off – Comments (0)
• Rust Bet: AFL-CIO Part of $2B Investment in Job-Creating Construction Throughout Midwest – Comments (0)
• They Don’t Want You to Vote: Array of GOP Tactics Still In Use to Quash Minority Voting Participation – Comments (0)
• With Building Trades Unions as Partners, Bridgeport to Capitalize on USDOL’s YouthBuild Grant – Comments (0)
• The $1M Wage Theft Settlement with Senate Cafeteria Staff? Some Workers are Getting $240. – Comments (0)
• The Latest H-1B Visa Bill May Not Be the Greatest H-1B Visa Bill – Comments (0)
• Since 1936, Every GOP President Has Created Manufacturing Losses. Every Democrat? Gains. – Comments (0)
• Project Labor Agreement + 1000s of Union Jobs = Tallest Building West of the Mississippi – Comments (0)
• Walking on Walker: 11,000 WI Jobs Outsourced Since Formation of Gov’s “Oversight” Agency – Comments (0)
• Fair Contracting Rule Is Final, Finally: Labor Law-Breakers Now Must Report Violations to the Feds – Comments (0)
• Financial Docs: WV GOP Senate Candidate’s Construction Co. Built School With Cheap Foreign Labor – Comments (0)
• EO Aimed at Disclosure of Federal Contractor Labor Violations Could See Light of Day this Fall – Comments (0)

MICHIGAN

• MI House Passes Anti-Union Bills to Prevent Picketing and Facilitate Hiring of Scabs – Comments (0)
• MI House Jams “Democracy-proof” Voter Suppression Bill Into Lame Duck Session – Comments (0)
• MI GOP’s Pathetic Attempt to Suppress Minority Voting Squashed by Fed Appeals Court – Comments (0)
• Federal Judge Issues Injunction Blocking MI’s Paycheck Deception Law, Public Act 269 – Comments (0)
• Third Time’s the Harm? ABC’s Petition Drive to Repeal MI’s Prevailing Wage Fails AGAIN – Comments (0)
• Local Pay Protected: Anti-Worker Contractors’ Group, ABC, Loses MI Prevailing Wage Case – Comments (0)
• Dangerous Michigan Bill Would Triple the Number of Less-Skilled Electricians on Worksites – Comments (0)
• Union Plumbers Converge on Flint, Volunteer to Install Faucets Amid Water Crisis – Comments (0)
• 2015 DATA: WI is a Union Membership Cesspool, but Numbers Remained Flat in OH, Rose in MI – Comments (0)
• MI GOP Passes 11th-Hour Measure Limiting Union Political Activities Despite Admitting It Was Rushed – Comments (0)
• MI Gov. Finally Set to Sign Road Funding Deal After Years of Political Infighting – Comments (0)
• Death of a Salesman: MI Prevailing Wage Repeal Kaput After Fake, Duplicate Signatures Confirmed – Comments (0)

MISCLASSIFICATION

• Worker Win: MD Institutes New Penalties and Fines for Employee Misclassification – Comments (0)
• Teamsters Organize Two XPO Logistics Shops: “Workers Standing Up to this Corporate Bully” – Comments (0)
• Play Your Position: Flex Drivers, Delivering for Amazon, Bring Misclassification Suit – Comments (0)
• Uber Drivers Rally in Queens to Fight Scourge of Misclassification, Demand Right to Unionize – Comments (0)
• Highway Robbery: Latest Trucker Misclassification Class Action Ruling Goes Workers’ Way – Comments (0)
• A Fraud by Any Other Name: Contractor Admits to Cheating WV Workers, Is Rehired a Month Later – Comments (0)
• $750K Misclassification Penalty Could Still Grow for Out-of-State Contractor on Hawaii Hotel Project – Comments (0)
• DOL Settles with MA Construction Firms for $2.4M Over 478 Misclassified, Underpaid Workers – Comments (0)
• Leaflet My People Go: Teamsters Arrested in GA for Distributing Info About XPO Logistics Misclassification – Comments (0)
• FedEx Ground Settles Decade-Old Misclassification Case: $240M Across 20 States – Comments (0)
• 30 Down, 20 to Go: South Dakota Joins 29 Other States in Fight Against Misclassification – Comments (0)
• Number of Misclassified Coloradans Has Doubled Since 2011; the Unemployed are Losing $23M/Year – Comments (0)

OHIO

• Ohio Building Trades Partner With Lucas County to Attract Private Dollars, High-Paying Jobs – Comments (0)
• MISS THIS? Nearly 100K Ohioans Being Paid Below the Minimum Wage – Comments (0)
• With Statewide Project Labor Agreement Ban Defeated, Toledo Votes to Require Them – Comments (0)
• SB 152, Which Aimed to Ban Local Hiring Quotas and Project Labor Agreements in OH, Shot Down – Comments (0)
• Cincinnati Becomes First OH City to Pass Wage Theft Ordinance, Will Revoke Business Incentives – Comments (0)
• 2015 DATA: WI is a Union Membership Cesspool, but Numbers Remained Flat in OH, Rose in MI – Comments (0)
• Ohio’s Looming “Right-to-Work” Fight Features Familiar Falsehoods – Comments (0)
• Overcoming Post-SB5 Fears, Ohio County Clerks Unionize to Fight Serious Health Violations – Comments (0)
• Ohio Anti-Gerrymandering Bill Unites Chamber of Commerce, AFL-CIO – Comments (1)
• In Important Last-Second Switch, OH Senate Committee Keeps Project Labor Agreements in Play – Comments (0)
• Yes, Really: Anti-Union Associated Builders & Contractors Pursue Bills to Ban Local Hiring in OH – Comments (0)
• Home Health Care Workers Lose Right to Bargain Collective in OH – Comments (0)

OPINION

• St. Louis Building Trades Leader: Clean Energy Program Would Create 6K Jobs, $1B Economic Impact – Comments (0)
• POLL: Americans More Optimistic About Labor Unions Than They’ve Been in a Decade – Comments (0)
• Sierra Club, IL Pipe Trades Pen Op-Ed to Heighten Awareness of Lead’s Danger to U.S. Health – Comments (0)
• Organizing Victories Show Labor’s Prospects in Traditionally Anti-Worker VA are “Looking Good” – Comments (0)
• A Must-Read Defense of PLAs: “The workplace is a tradesperson’s classroom.” – Comments (0)
• A “Culture of Fear” Has Contributed to Declining Union Membership – Comments (0)
• GOP Congressional Candidate: “Right-to-work laws have no place in Pennsylvania” – Comments (0)
• Real Newspaper: NFL Cheerleaders Don’t Need Employee Status Because They Know Rich Players – Comments (0)
• Top Economists: Politics, Not Industry Changes, Responsible for Decline in Unionism – Comments (1)
• Bloomberg: Union-Bashing No Longer a Viable Campaign Strategy – Comments (0)
• WA Building Trades: Jobs, Not Politics, Should Drive Export Terminal Decisions – Comments (0)
• Former Assoc. Builders & Contractors Lobbyist Op-Ed Dismantled by Actual Economist – Comments (0)

PLA!

• WI GOP Introduces Bill Blocking Local Wage, Safety, Hiring Standards in Construction – Comments (0)
• Facing Rise in Construction Fatalities, Anti-Union Contractor Lobbies Simply Repeat Themselves – Comments (0)
• Impact of Oakland Port PLA Felt More Than Ever as Local Hiring Soars to 60% – Comments (0)
• PLA Agreed to For All Work Done Through $249M Bond Measure in Fairfield, CA – Comments (0)
• Kelly Ayotte, Who Opposes PLAs and Workers’ Rights, Trailing Badly in NH Sen. Race – Comments (0)
• Oakland City Council to Vote on African-American, Female Hiring Mandates on City- Funded Projects – Comments (0)
• CA One Step Closer to Project Labor Agreement on Monterey’s Interlake Tunnel Project – Comments (0)
• PLA Enables 20% Minority, 25% Female Hiring Goals on $300M Oregon Court House Job – Comments (0)
• Project Labor Agreements Have Big Week in Wisconsin, California – Comments (0)
• Under Armour CEO Still Defiant; Baltimore Labor, Church Groups Stand Up for Workers, Housing – Comments (0)
• Project Labor Agreement + 1000s of Union Jobs = Tallest Building West of the Mississippi – Comments (0)
• Rochester Building Trades, Non-Profit Seek Injunction to Reinstate PLA for School Construction – Comments (0)

RTW

• Desperate (Ballot) Measures: With MO GOP Set to Pass “Right-to-Work,” Labor Leader Strikes Early – Comments (0)
• Red Bluegrass: Prevailing Wage Repeal, “Right-to-Work” Increasingly Likely in KY Following Election – Comments (0)
• Questions About Labor Supply, Wages, Tax Breaks Surround Trump’s $1T Infrastructure Plan – Comments (0)
• 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back: VA’s Minor “Right-to-Work” Victory Countered by Losses in SD, AL – Comments (0)
• Anti-Union Group Caught Sending Undisclosed Election Materials to Voters in WV – Comments (0)
• Bright Spot: On Tuesday, VA Rejected a Uniquely Oppressive Eternal “Right-to-Work” Amendment – Comments (0)
• THIS IS NOT A TEST: VA Ballot Measure Would Make “Right-to-Work” Virtually Irreversible – Comments (0)
• Latest “Right-to-Work” Challenge Fails in WI, One Case Remains Before Court of Appeals – Comments (0)
• Judge Sides with WV Unions, Issues Injunction Blocking State’s New Right-to-Work Law – Comments (0)
• WV Unions File “Right-to-Work” Lawsuit, Aim to Recreate WI Outcome, Eye SCOTUS Involvement – Comments (0)
• GOP Congressional Candidate: “Right-to-work laws have no place in Pennsylvania” – Comments (0)
• WV AFL-CIO Joins Lawsuit Against “Right-to-Work”; Legal Argument Echoes Recent WI Ruling – Comments (0)

SAFETY

• Exposé Reveals “Years of Exposure to Highly Toxic Chemicals” at Ontario GE Plant – Comments (0)
• Powerful NYC Council Speaker Suggests Support for Building Trades Apprenticeship Legislation – Comments (0)
• Facing Rise in Construction Fatalities, Anti-Union Contractor Lobbies Simply Repeat Themselves – Comments (0)
• “Merit” Shop: Death in Brooklyn Brings Non-Union NYC Fatality Total to 26 Over Two Years – Comments (0)
• Boston Ordinance Would Allow City to Reject Contractors with History of Violations – Comments (0)
• A Vote for Precedent: Supervisor Charged with Homicide in NYC Construction Worker’s Death – Comments (0)
• Building Trades: “Irresponsible Developers” to Blame for NYC’s Non-Union Construction Deaths – Comments (0)
• Perez Slams Workers Comp System: “Federal Gov’t Has Basically Abdicated any Responsibility.” – Comments (0)
• “Our motivation in this partnership is quite simple. We see tremendous value in the diversification of our workforce.” – Comments (0)
• One Third of NYC Construction Deaths Went “Unrecorded” by the de Blasio Administration in 2015 – Comments (0)
• Austin Approves New Standards: Living Wage, OSHA Training, Worker’s Comp, Local Hire – Comments (0)
• Fair Contracting Rule Is Final, Finally: Labor Law-Breakers Now Must Report Violations to the Feds – Comments (0)

TAKE ACTION!

• Powerful NYC Council Speaker Suggests Support for Building Trades Apprenticeship Legislation – Comments (0)
• Rowan University and Building Trades Open Door to Online Education – Comments (0)
• MI House Passes Anti-Union Bills to Prevent Picketing and Facilitate Hiring of Scabs – Comments (0)
• Righting Wrongs: EEOC Announces $482M in Workplace Discrimination Compensation for FY 2016 – Comments (0)
• Boston Ordinance Would Allow City to Reject Contractors with History of Violations – Comments (0)
• CPS Partners with Trade Unions to Launch High School Training Program for Chicago’s Youth – Comments (0)
• Rust Bet: AFL-CIO Part of $2B Investment in Job-Creating Construction Throughout Midwest – Comments (0)
• Worker Win: MD Institutes New Penalties and Fines for Employee Misclassification – Comments (0)
• Play Your Position: Flex Drivers, Delivering for Amazon, Bring Misclassification Suit – Comments (0)
• San Jose Construction Workers Protest Use of Outside Labor: “It’s Pure and Simple Greed” – Comments (0)
• Building Trades Tout IL’s HIRE Education Program to Boost Minority, Female Involvement in Construction – Comments (0)
• OR Levies Second Lifetime Ban of Company For Violating Prevailing Wage (NOTE: Be Like Oregon) – Comments (0)

TECH TUTORIAL

• Obama’s Fair Pay EO May Be Temporarily Blocked, but this New Wage Theft Hotline is Open – Comments (0)
• The Latest H-1B Visa Bill May Not Be the Greatest H-1B Visa Bill – Comments (0)
• Seattle One Step Closer to Setting Crucial Precedent for Unionization of Gig Workers – Comments (0)
• Hearings on H-1B Visa Abuse Highlight Problematic System; No Clear Path to Reform Set – Comments (0)
• Outsource n’ Force: Citizens Bank is Latest Co. to Force Laid Off Workers to Train Replacements – Comments (0)
• STEM the Tide: Pair of Conservatives Join Labor’s Call for a Cap on H-1B Visas, Stricter Enforcement – Comments (0)
• Going Viral: Drivers at 6 More Silicon Valley Companies Have Signed Union Authorization Cards – Comments (0)
• Judge Rejects Wide-Reaching Tech Industry Wage Suppression Settlement ‘Cause It’s Not Big Enough – Comments (0)
• Gerrymandering? There’s an App For That. – Comments (0)
• #WorkersRights: NLRB Ends Oppressive Social Media Policy at Koch Bros’ Georgia-Pacific – Comments (0)
• OSHA Introduces Online Whistleblower Complaint Form – Comments (0)
• Foreign Worker Visas Don’t Only Take Jobs from Americans, They Expedite the Offshoring Process – Comments (0)

THE NOT NEWS

• OMGodwin: PA State Senator Compares Unions to Hitler and Putin – Comments (0)
• Proposal to Reverse Citizens United, McCutcheon Introduced by Top Dems in Senate Hearing – Comments (0)
• Small Gov’t, Big Salary: Tea Party Groups Using Paltry 5% of Funds They Raise on Candidates – Comments (0)
• Welcome to Wyoming, ALEC’s Idea of a World-Class Melting Pot and Business Mecca – Comments (0)
• WI DMV Official Likens Immigrants to “Satan.” Gov Walker Lies About Firing Him. Official Sues Gov. – Comments (1)
• Shameful Anti-Union Walmart Indoctrination Video Makes the Rounds Online – Comments (0)
• REPORT: Of Discouraging $110B in Corporate Welfare, $88M Goes to Koch Industries – Comments (2)
• TODAY IN DUH: States With Higher Union Membership Have Stronger Middle Class – Comments (0)
• Governor’s Crony Gift-Giving Comes to Light in PA – Comments (0)
• How I Spent My RNC Mandated Summer Vacation – Comments (0)
• The Emperor’s Old Clothes: False Recovery Being Masked by Everyone Looking at Wrong Numbers – Comments (0)
• Pair of Dutch Pension Managers Yank Funds from Walmart Because of Questionable Labor Practices – Comments (0)

TRADE

• With Trump Win, Obama Admits Defeat of Trans-Pacific Partnership, Pleasing Labor – Comments (0)
• The Latest H-1B Visa Bill May Not Be the Greatest H-1B Visa Bill – Comments (0)
• Since 1936, Every GOP President Has Created Manufacturing Losses. Every Democrat? Gains. – Comments (0)
• McConnell Says TPP Is Shelved Until After the Election, Some Even Say It Could Disappear – Comments (0)
• Emails Between US Trade Rep. Froman and Wall Street Bankers Reveal New Degree of TPP Collusion – Comments (0)
• Typically Optimistic Trade Commission Admits the Gravity of TPP Outlook; $21B Deficit Projected – Comments (0)
• New Tufts Study: “TPP Would Lead to Jobs Losses in All Countries” – Comments (1)
• Trans-Pacific Partnership Complete. Nations Hold Breath. Clinton Speaks Out. – Comments (0)
• Greenville Burning: Free Trade Agreements Have a Habit of Destroying Small Town America – Comments (0)
• Leaning Tower of China: Dangerous New Flaws Discovered in Outsourced Bay Bridge Construction – Comments (0)
• AFL-CIO to Halt Voluntary Political Contributions Until Trans-Pacific Partnership Fast-Track Vote Passes – Comments (0)
• Knee Trade Agreement: Leak Reveals TISA Could Result in Offshoring of Health Care Services, Procedures – Comments (0)

Uncategorized

• Party On: MO AFL-CIO Endorsing Republicans Who Will Help Defeat “Right-to-Work” – Comments (1)
• SC Construction Scheme Defrauded Minorities, Women, Vets, the Disabled Out of $350M in Gov’t Work – Comments (0)
• The Legal Argument Used to Overturn Wisconsin’s “Right-to-Work” Law Could Be Used Elsewhere – Comments (1)
• Binghamton Councilman Who Tried to Bribe ABC Contractor on PLA Bill Forced to Resign – Comments (0)
• Prevailing Wages Win: CA’s SB7 Law Upheld, Charter Cities Can’t Skirt Proper Pay – Comments (0)
• Lawsuit Alleges H-2b Visa Workers Faced “Ungodly Conditions” at Minnesota State Fair – Comments (0)
• Immigrants in U.S. on H-2b Visas Exposed to Asbestos in IL; $1.8M Fine Issued – Comments (0)
• U.S. District Court Denies Summary Judgements in Uber, Lyft Misclassification Cases – Comments (0)
• Nevada Senate’s School Construction Prevailing Wage Exemption is “as Partisan as You Can Make It” – Comments (0)
• Rhode Island Commission Considering Mandating Approved Apprenticeship Programs for Public Bids – Comments (0)
• IL Plumbers Local, Building Trades Council Fight for School District Upgrades, Training Opportunities – Comments (0)
• IAM Confident as Unionization Effort Gets Underway at South Carolina Boeing Plant – Comments (0)

UNION HQ

• Powerful NYC Council Speaker Suggests Support for Building Trades Apprenticeship Legislation – Comments (0)
• WI GOP Introduces Bill Blocking Local Wage, Safety, Hiring Standards in Construction – Comments (0)
• Facing Rise in Construction Fatalities, Anti-Union Contractor Lobbies Simply Repeat Themselves – Comments (0)
• Desperate (Ballot) Measures: With MO GOP Set to Pass “Right-to-Work,” Labor Leader Strikes Early – Comments (0)
• Rowan University and Building Trades Open Door to Online Education – Comments (0)
• “Merit” Shop: Death in Brooklyn Brings Non-Union NYC Fatality Total to 26 Over Two Years – Comments (0)
• MI House Passes Anti-Union Bills to Prevent Picketing and Facilitate Hiring of Scabs – Comments (0)
• MEPI: Prevailing Wage Cost Savings Claims Mean WI GOP “Expects People to Work For Free” – Comments (0)
• New House Committee Leadership: NLRB Is Expendable, Unions Have Lost “Reason for Being” – Comments (0)
• Welcome Words: LiUNA’s Toronto Local Offering Training, Testing in New Members’ Native Languages – Comments (0)
• Trump’s Carrier Deal, Taking Heat from All Sides, Also Means 500 Union Workers Will Be Laid Off – Comments (0)
• Ontario, Seeking to Reform Apprenticeship Programs, Turns Deaf Ear to Unions; IBEW Balks – Comments (0)

VIDEO

• Prevailing Wages Result in Economic Benefits that Outweigh Shortsighted ‘Taxpayer Savings’ Argument – Comments (0)
• VIDEO: IBEW Local Launches Model Program for Boosting Its Youngest Organizers – Comments (0)
• Elizabeth Warren at MN DFL Dinner: Ted Cruz Would Have Tried to Repeal the Declaration of Independence – Comments (2)
• New IBEW Ad Links Union Pride, American Advancement – Comments (0)
• Shameful Anti-Union Walmart Indoctrination Video Makes the Rounds Online – Comments (0)
• Shuttered School Turned Training Facility Brings Opportunity to Underserved Chicago Neighborhood – Comments (0)
• IBEW Spearheads Return of Jobs to Texas (from China) Through Partnership with Lighting Manufacturer – Comments (0)
• VIDEO: Letterman Invites Teamsters Local 817 to Deliver “Top 10″ on Labor Day – Comments (0)
• VIDEO: Workers the World Over Speak Out Against the Trans-Pacific Partnership – Comments (0)
• Prepare Thy Kleenex: Touching Video Surfaces Highlighting the Importance of a Union Workplace – Comments (0)
• CNN Program to Focus on NY LiUNA! Organizer This Sunday at 10PM – Comments (0)
• Colbert Takes Down McDonald’s, O’Reilly for Misunderstanding How the (Low-Wage) World Works – Comments (0)

VOTER ID

• MI House Jams “Democracy-proof” Voter Suppression Bill Into Lame Duck Session – Comments (0)
• The Show Me (Your License) State: MO GOP Overrides Gov’s Veto of Discriminatory Voter ID – Comments (0)
• 1968, Part 2: TX Voter ID Law Violates Voting Rights Act but Isn’t Entirely Struck Down by Court – Comments (0)
• Crow’s Test: North Carolina Voter ID Stands Trial, Will Have Sweeping Implications for 2016 Elections – Comments (0)
• Alabama Just Closed Driver’s License Offices in Every County with a 75% Black Population – Comments (0)
• “The Most Racist Politician in America” Embroiled in Latest Voting Machine SNAFU – Comments (0)
• NC’s Archaic Voting Rights Rollback Goes on Closely Watched Trial – Comments (0)
• One Of Their Own: Conservative Judge Admits Voter ID Is “Aimed at Limiting Voting by Minorities” – Comments (0)
• Few Surprises in WI’s First of Two Gov Debates as Burke Dings Walker on Voter ID, Jobs, Medicare – Comments (0)
• Court Action Keeps Dream of Early Voting Alive in Ohio, Despite Unrelenting GOP – Comments (0)
• NC College Students Fighting Voter ID Laws on Grounds of Age Discrimination – Comments (0)
• Quoting LBJ, Obama Slams GOP-Led Voter Suppression Efforts – Comments (0)

WAGES

• Massive Wage Theft Recovery is One of Alaska’s Largest Worker Wins in State History – Comments (0)
• ME Gov. Is Legitimately Telling Department of Labor Not to Enforce New Minimum Wage Law – Comments (0)
• MEPI: Prevailing Wage Cost Savings Claims Mean WI GOP “Expects People to Work For Free” – Comments (0)
• DOL Wants to Fast-Track Appeal of New Overtime Rule Injunction, Avoid Certain Post-Trump Fate – Comments (0)
• Trump’s Carrier Deal, Taking Heat from All Sides, Also Means 500 Union Workers Will Be Laid Off – Comments (0)
• $54M in Damages Awarded to Walmart Truckers – Comments (0)
• Red Bluegrass: Prevailing Wage Repeal, “Right-to-Work” Increasingly Likely in KY Following Election – Comments (0)
• Questions About Labor Supply, Wages, Tax Breaks Surround Trump’s $1T Infrastructure Plan – Comments (0)
• Housing Developers Finally Agree to Prevailing Wages as Condition of Tax Breaks in NYC – Comments (0)
• 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back: VA’s Minor “Right-to-Work” Victory Countered by Losses in SD, AL – Comments (0)
• Freelance Isn’t Free: NYC Passes Wage Theft Bill With Stiff Penalties to Protect Gig Economy Workers – Comments (0)
• Obama’s Fair Pay EO May Be Temporarily Blocked, but this New Wage Theft Hotline is Open – Comments (0)

WALL STREET

• Emails Between US Trade Rep. Froman and Wall Street Bankers Reveal New Degree of TPP Collusion – Comments (0)
• Duh Blasio: Mayor’s Anti-Wage Stance Leads to Suspension of Affordable Housing Construction – Comments (0)
• Trans-Pacific Partnership Complete. Nations Hold Breath. Clinton Speaks Out. – Comments (0)
• Portage, IN Becomes First City to Pass Measure Countering Repeal of Common Construction Wage – Comments (2)
• Teamsters Call on UPS to Cut Ties With ALEC – Comments (0)
• CEOverreach: Big Boss Pay Is up 997% Since ’78 While Workers Only Gained 10.9% – Comments (0)
• Former Member Says Corporations, Lawmakers Vote Side-by-Side on Laws at ALEC Retreats – Comments (0)
• Boeing CEO Taking $3.9M Annual Pension for 15 Years After Workers Were Forced Into 401Ks – Comments (2)
• BLS Figures Paint Bleak Picture of IL Economy, Refute Gov. Rauner Claims of Union-Driven Ills – Comments (0)
• Goldman Sachs Limits Interns to 17-Hour Workday, Impressing Absolutely No One – Comments (0)
• Maine Bill Would Tie Big Business Tax Credits to (Prevailing) Wage Standards – Comments (0)
• Surprised? Two-Thirds of Federal Subsidies Since 2000 Have Gone to Large Corporations – Comments (0)

WISCONSIN

• WI GOP Introduces Bill Blocking Local Wage, Safety, Hiring Standards in Construction – Comments (0)
• MEPI: Prevailing Wage Cost Savings Claims Mean WI GOP “Expects People to Work For Free” – Comments (0)
• Act Ten-uous: IA Fears WI-Style Collective Bargaining Upheaval Following GOP Victories – Comments (0)
• Latest “Right-to-Work” Challenge Fails in WI, One Case Remains Before Court of Appeals – Comments (0)
• Project Labor Agreements Have Big Week in Wisconsin, California – Comments (0)
• Leaked John Doe Docs Prove to Everyone but Corrupt WI Courts that Gov. Walker Broke the Law – Comments (1)
• Walking on Walker: 11,000 WI Jobs Outsourced Since Formation of Gov’s “Oversight” Agency – Comments (0)
• WI Republican Grossly Exaggerates Laborer Salaries in Push for Prevailing Wage Repeal – Comments (0)
• WI “Right-to-Work” Law Thrown Out by Lower Court Just as Higher Court Gets More Conservative – Comments (0)
• 2015 DATA: WI is a Union Membership Cesspool, but Numbers Remained Flat in OH, Rose in MI – Comments (0)
• Crony Crusade: WI Gov. Walker Set to Take Unprecedented Control of Government Hiring – Comments (0)
• Workers’ Romp: WI GOP “Chipping Away at Workers’ Rights” With Devastating New Injury Bill – Comments (2)

WOMEN

• Boston She Party: Percentage of Women Filling Beantown Apprenticeship Positions Outpaces Nation – Comments (0)
• PLA Enables 20% Minority, 25% Female Hiring Goals on $300M Oregon Court House Job – Comments (0)
• Building Trades Tout IL’s HIRE Education Program to Boost Minority, Female Involvement in Construction – Comments (0)
• CA Gov Signs Bill to Increase Women’s Participation in Pre-Apprenticeship Programs – Comments (0)
• “Our motivation in this partnership is quite simple. We see tremendous value in the diversification of our workforce.” – Comments (0)
• Grant Will Further Efforts of Hartford Foundation, Building Trades, to Train Women and Minorities – Comments (0)
• SURVEY: Women Keeping the Electrical Contracting Industry Young – Comments (0)
• First Rochester Kills School Modernization PLA, Then They Remove Its Chief Supporter from Power – Comments (0)
• MA’s Awesome New Pay Equity Bill Prevents Salary History from Keeping Women’s Wages Down – Comments (0)
• Union Trades Camp Shows Young PA Girls the Construction Ropes – Comments (0)
• “It Was Terrific for All of Us”: Women Build Nations Conference Sets Record with 1500 Attendees – Comments (0)
• “Life-Changing” Conference Introduces Building Trades to 400 Young Women from Massachusetts – Comments (0)

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