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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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| 09/03/10 | Stalemate in Chicago Strike Delays Key Local Projects |
| 08/18/10 | Laborers Rejoin AFL-CIO, But Unity Not Total Two years after making its first stab at rejoining organized labor, the Laborers International Union of North America is completing the reunion by returning to the AFL-CIO. |
| 07/21/10 | Deal Ends Strike In the Midwest Following nine hours of negotiations on July 19, Chicago contractors and unions reached a tentative three-year agreement on wages and health-care benefits to end a three-week strike. |
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07/14/10 Stalemate in Chicago Strike Delays Key Local Projects07/14/10 Engineers Without Borders-USA Selected for 2010 Turner Prize
07/07/10 Construction Unemployment Rate Flat As Industry Loses 22,000 Jobs in June
07/02/10 Construction Jobless Rate Flat; Industry Loses 22,000 Jobs in June
06/30/10 University of Alabama Debuts Disaster Response Study Track
06/23/10 Congress Confirms Two to National Labor Relations Board
06/23/10 Labor Dept. Considering Worker-Classification Rule
06/23/10 Mentoring Group Benefits Students
06/21/10 Labor Dept. Mulls Proposing Worker-Classification Rule
06/09/10 Industry Associations Launch Career Website in Water Niche
06/09/10 Unemployment at Record Levels Despite Seasonal Declines
06/04/10 Construction Jobless Rate Improves in May, But Industry Lost 35,000 Jobs
05/18/10 Laborers' Union Launches Infrastructure Campaign
05/12/10 Prison Builder Helps Inmates Go To Work
05/12/10 Construction Unemployment Drops But Still Tops 20%
05/07/10 Construction's April Jobless Rate Gets a Bit Brighter
05/05/10 Arizona's Immigration Law Troubles State's Contractors
04/21/10 Trades Vow To Keep Political Status Quo
04/02/10 Unemployment Rises
03/10/10 Pressure, Layoffs and Long Hours Generate Post-Traumatic Construction Disorder
03/10/10 In a Tough Year, Concerns Rise About Morale
03/10/10 Unemployment Rises
03/05/10 Construction Jobless Rate Keeps Climbing, Hits 27%
02/24/10 Industry’s ‘Millennials’ Raise Their Voices
02/17/10 Unemployment Hits 25%
02/10/10 Open-Shop Group Sees Gains Even in Pro-Union Administration
02/05/10 Construction Jobless Rate Climbs to 24.7% in January
01/13/10 White House Pegs Stimulus Construction Jobs at 262,000
12/04/09 Construction Jobless Rate Climbs To 19.4% in November
11/25/09 Union Jumps On Geothermal Bandwagon
11/25/09 Outsourcing of Port of Baltimore Could Yield 3,000 Building Jobs
11/25/09 Honolulu and Unions Strike Deal On $5.5-Billion Transit Project
11/11/09 Congress Moves To Spur Job Creation
11/11/09 FMI/CMAA Owner Survey Shows Big Upsurge in Outsourcing
11/10/09 Florida Design Firm Regroups After Ex-Employee's Fatal Rampage
11/06/09 Construction Unemployment Rate Rises to 18.7%
11/06/09 Discharged Engineer Shoots Five At E-A Reynolds, Smith & Hills
10/23/09 New Labor Board Nominees May Tilt Decisions on Unions
10/21/09 U.K. Retirement Age Upheld by Court
10/21/09 Corps Reorganizes Mideast Operations
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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