Workforce
Workforce
Stories about craft and professional work and all issues related to the workplace can be found in this section. We often write about recruitment, training, retention, pay, career development and the ever-changing parameters of work life and human resources in construction and design. We also cover national and local labor law and policy.
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10/23/09 New Labor Board Nominees May Tilt Decisions on Unions

The Senate Health, Labor and Pensions Committee has approved President Barack Obama's nominees to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.
10/21/09 U.K. Retirement Age Upheld by Court

Attempts have failed to outlaw the U.K. government-set default retirement age of 65 years, marking the end of a three-year legal tussle.
10/21/09 Corps Reorganizes Mideast Operations
The Army Corps of Engineers will deactivate its Gulf Regional Division in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 23, transferring oversight responsibilities for Corps operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to the recently created Trans Atlantic Division, based in Winchester, Va.
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10/14/09 AFL-CIO Unveils New Program For Training Native Americans
10/14/09 Power Sector Will Need New Blood as It Moves Into a New Era
10/02/09 Construction's Unemployment Rate Rises to 17.1% in September
09/24/09 St. Louis Sheet-Metal Union Plans $15-Million Green Facility
09/23/09 Construction Squeeze Takes Toll As Wage Hikes Flatten Nationwide
09/23/09 Building Trades, Carpenters Rev Up Organizing Rhetoric
09/23/09 Teaching Engineering With the Three R's Would Boost U.S. Student Output, Study Says
09/23/09 St. Louis Sheet-Metal Union Plans $15-Million Green Facility
09/17/09 AFL-CIO Presses Carpenters To Return to the Fold
09/11/09 White House Estimates Stimulus Resulted in 133,000 Construction Jobs, So Far
09/09/09 Unemployment Rate Dips, But Big Job Losses Continue
09/04/09 Construction Unemployment Rate Improves, But Job Losses Still Cut Deeply
08/12/09 Construction Unemployment Is Double the U.S. Average
08/12/09 Industry Participants Raise Funds, Build Teams In Fast-Track Mountain-Climbing Experience
08/10/09Construction's Jobless Rate Rises in July
07/29/09 Productivity Report Calls For Integrated, Efficient Approach
07/22/09 PDAs in Hand, Pre-Teens Tackle Running Construction Companies
07/22/09 Union-Organizing Bill Stalled As Senators Try to Work on Details
07/15/09 New PLA Rule Is Unveiled
06/24/09 Immigration Agency Unable to Measure Undocumented Workers in Gulf States
06/17/09 Unemployment Soars
06/10/09 Green Energy Brightens Union Electrical Training
06/05/09 Immigration Agency Unable to Measure Undocumented Workers in Gulf States
06/03/09 Big Apple Firms and Unions Will Cut Costs To Boost Work
06/03/09 Women Academics Progressing But Not in All Areas, Says Study
05/13/09 Tucson High Schoolers Await Market Pickup At On-Site Craft Apprentice ‘Learning Lab’
04/15/09 Innovative Union Program Trains Military Vets To Weld and How To Cope with Civilian Life
03/18/09 Labor Deals with Uncertainties
03/18/09 'Construction Challenge' Attracts Junior-High, High-School Teens To Industry's Many Jobs
02/25/09 U.K. Contractors Work To Display Their Better Side
02/18/09 Trades Gearing Up for Billions In Economic Stimulus Work
02/18/09 Researchers in 'Early Career' Lauded for Work To Revolutionize Engineering and Industry
02/11/09 GAO Denies Granite Bid Protest Of Air Base Runway Job Award
02/11/09 Model Code Writer Announces Revamped Code-Change Process
02/06/09 Obama Delivers Promise to Unions By Reversing Bush Labor Pact Ban
02/04/09 U.K Crews Protest Foreign Workers
02/02/06 English Refinery Protests Spread To Other Worksites in England
01/28/09 Autodesk Cuts Workforce By 10% Across the Board
01/28/09 CAT Lays Off 20,000 Workers
01/14/09 Repave of Historic Space Shuttle Runway Tests Study To Boost Construction-Team Performance
01/14/09 U.S. Industry CEOs See Swings In Domestic and Overseas Barriers
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