The National Labor Relations Board voted Wednesday to move forward with a contentious new labor rule that Republicans and business groups charge would restrict the ability of employers to bring concerns about union elections to the regulatory agency. Read more at POLITICO.

The Building and Construction Trades Department (BCDT) of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) announced Thursday its Canadian affiliate “unreservedly” supports the Keystone XL pipeline, which TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) of Calgary claims will create 20,000 construction jobs in the United States. Read more at Daily Commercial News.

Union educator Michael Schurr is setting up a train-the-trainer course in traffic safety control at the recent request of painting contractors, now busy with stimulus-funded work repainting the nation’s bridges. “They want to keep the maniacs on the road,” said Schurr, a former glazier who now directs the apprenticeship program for District 21 of the … Read more »

The American worker has been getting thrashed for thirty years. Jobs leaving the country, wages flat, his boss getting rich. One coal miner from Pennsylvania knows exactly what to do about it. Read more at ESQUIRE.

JOLIET — Local business leader [and DC 14 member] Hugo Manzo has been selected to serve on the Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission. Manzo is an agent with Painters District Council 14. Raised in Joliet, he attended Joliet Central High School. Upon graduation, Manzo joined Will County Painters Local 33 as a drywall finisher working in … Read more »

Most of the audience — and more than half the speakers — at Wednesday morning’s environmental impact statement hearing on American Dream Meadowlands were labor union members and executives who stressed the need for more jobs in the region. Ron Nosiay, president of the Union Local 1976, representing painters, tapers and glaziers, referred to the … Read more »

Council Member Karen Toles (D) – District 7, sponsor of the legislation, comments on the historical significance of Council Bill 16-2011, and the opportunities it would ultimately create for Prince George’s County. “Until now, there has been no existing law for the use of PLAs on County construction projects in the state of Maryland.  Prince … Read more »

An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday—a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as “Armistice Day.” Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to … Read more »

NOVEMBER 4, 2011 St. Paul, MN – Yesterday, the owner and president of Franklin Drywall, Philip Franklin, was sentenced in federal court after he pled guilty in January of underpaying employees for overtime work and misappropriating funds for employee pension and benefit contributions. “The importance of this conviction cannot be emphasized enough because it sends … Read more »