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Labor issues hit home: my home - By Steve Duin, OregonLive.comThe number of Latinos in residential construction is on the increase -- they filled two out of every three new U.S. jobs in 2006, according to the Pew Hispanic Center -- and the number of Caucasian teenagers looking for a job that doesn't involve a college degree and a laptop is on the wane.Too many people still believe minority

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Projections, Inc | Products; Services | IceBreaker'What are other companies communicating about the Employee Free Choice Act?'Projections has been producing this unique custom union avoidance video for companies around the nation. It's the one presentation that truly hits home and openly helps maintain a union-free status.

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State is seeking the modern Rosie the Riveter - By Susan Abram, LA Daily NewsRetirements of existing workers loom just as federal stimulus money to repair the state's roads and highways, levies and dams, schools and government buildings, becomes available in the next few years.That means the supply of carpenters, iron workers, equipment operators and masons won't meet the demand unless 200,000

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Families emote, labor mobilizes - By Alexandra Berzon, Las Vegas Sun Last week Nevada chief administrative officer Tom Czehowski said that in some cases citations were deleted because inspections were problematic, and in other cases because the employer promised to improve safety. OSHA attorney John Wiles had said “nothing inappropriate” occurred during the Orleans investigation.Czehowski has

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Unions react as Madoff goes to jail - WSTM NBC3How much did the carpenter's union lose? "I heard 15 percent but I know it’s going to take many months to go through the financial figures," Brady said.

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Perini seeks union givebacks - By Liz Benston, Alexandra Berzon, Las Vegas SunIn meetings Thursday, Perini Chief Executive Craig Shaw and top executives of the CityCenter and Cosmopolitan projects asked for $2-an-hour wage decreases from about 11,000 trades members on those jobs, say sources involved in the discussion who did not want to be identified because the meetings were confidential.Perini

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How an entire generation of carpenters has been blighted by asbestos cancer - Killer Dust - Asbestos campaign - By Mike Swain, Mirror.co.ukProfessor Peto added: 'Our main conclusion is that end-user exposure to brown asbestos is a major cause of the extraordinary rate of mesothelioma in British men born in the 40s.'You can see people in the national statistics who were carpenters when they were

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THE DUST OF DEATH - By Emily Cook And Mark Swain, mirror.co.ukThe horror of one of Britain's deadliest imports is about to be unleashed on those unwittingly exposed to its dangers.Deaths from asbestos-related diseases could reach at least 200,000 - and many of the victims will not even be aware they are at risk until it is too late.The shocking figures are the grim legacy of the millions of tons

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Web video of workers starts Dept. of Labor and Industries probe - By Lornet Turnbull, Seattle TimesA YouTube video is playing a key role in state and federal cases against the concrete contractor of a $1 billion upscale urban village going up along Tacoma's Commencement Bay.On the video, three Spanish-speaking workers — their faces concealed — tell of being given ID badges that belonged to other

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7700 posts later... It's been a good run since Feb. 25, 2003 but there are so many good news sites and safety blogs available now that anything offered here is easily located elsewhere. The odd safety news items or something ironic about construction might show up periodically, but rawblogxport is no longer a daily blog. fraternally, dave livingston, carpenters local 2300 canada

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Women in Construction Week to be Celebrated Across the United States - news release, Sisters In The BrotherhoodWomen in Construction (WIC) Week will be celebrated March 1-7 by more than 100 chapters of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC). NAWIC exists to enhance the success of women in the construction industry.WIC Week provides a unified time for more than 5,500 NAWIC

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Safety Culture | A One Stop Resource for all of your Safety Needs

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Prosecutor: Mine collapse was 'perfect' disaster - By PAUL FOY, BusinessWeekA federal prosecutor looking into the collapse of a Utah mine said the operator was struggling to meet production quotas and was aggressively taking the last of the coal inside a slowly crumbling mountain -- all 'recipes for a disaster.'U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman said that even if he finds evidence of negligence at

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Simple method strengthens schools, other buildings against earthquakes - Writer: Emil Venere, Purdue News ServiceThe flaw is widespread in China, Latin America, Turkey and other countries. The buildings have too many 'partial-height' walls between structural columns and could be easily strengthened by replacing some windows with ordinary masonry bricks, said Santiago Pujol, an assistant professor

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LaborTalk: My Response to a Personal Attack By the Head of the Georgia AFL-CIO - LaborTalk by Harry KelberOn February 13, I received the following e-mail from Charlie Key, president of the Georgia AFL-CIO, to an article I had written about 'Heavy Pension Losses.' I am posting Key's e-mail in its complete, unedited version, after which I will respond.Key wrote:'Harry last I heard you were not even

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Fear and Grouting In New York - by Eliot Brown, New York ObserverThe level of construction in New York is soon to drop off a cliff, a plunge that will leave many a contractor and union member desperate for work. While construction is still at relatively high levels as projects move toward completion, the economic collapse and accompanying credit freeze has dried up the once plentiful well of new

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talk about the condensed version!How To Install Fiber Cement Siding - Reader's Digest"Cutting fiber cement siding raises a lot of silica dust, so work outside and wear a dust mask."

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Kitty Litter - I Don't Do Grocery!One of the biggest dangers to your cat’s – and the rest of your family’s – health can be found in the litter box. =========Some low quality clay litters contain crystalline silica dust, which is not biodegradable and is said to be cancer-causing. Crystalline silica can accumulate in your cat’s lungs over time which can result in a condition called silicosis,

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Silica...It's Not Just Dust: Silica Dust Causes Silicosis - NIOSH Publication 97-118 | CDC/NIOSH

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Construction Workers Should Know Silica: It's not just dust - Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of WashingtonConstruction sites are dusty places, but does that make them dangerous? If the dust contains pulverized rock or concrete there is more concern. One study showed silicosis deaths in the construction industry are higher than any other industry in the

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Cheaper highway projects generating jobs - By GLENN FARLEY, KING 5 News, Seattle, WAThe irony is that the slow economy is actually lending a boost to highway construction projects. Diesel prices are down. Rebar is less expensive and concrete is cheaper.It all means a number of existing state highway projects are coming in 20-percent or more under budget.

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Portland Carpenters union agrees to sensitivity class after alleged misconduct on picket lines - by Jeff Manning, The Oregonian Pickets lined up at more than 20 construction sites, including seven where Hoffman was the general contractor. The picketing got ugly at some locations, particularly in Portland's South Waterfront District where Hoffman was building condo towers and at The Nines, the

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ArcelorMittal crane operator credited with averting disaster - BY ANDREA HOLECEK, nwitimes.com, IN A ladle containing 12 tons of molten liquid steel was being moved from the electric furnace to the castor at about 8:40 p.m. when the ladle tipped and spilled its contents, said Tom Hargrove, president of United Steelworkers Local 1010.'The investigation is ongoing, but the crane apparently

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Firm is cooperating as death on crane investigated - The Boston GlobeOfficials with the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration did not respond to repeated requests for comment yesterday. That the apparatus fell at all raises questions about whether adequate precautions were taken in the lift's operation, a construction safety consultant said.'Generally, there are very few accidents that

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Second Annual Girls Non-Traditional Trades Event Invites Young Women to Explore Options - http://allpawtucket.com/blog/Middle and high school girls attending this free event (Saturday, March 28th) will have the opportunity to try hands on construction skills, as well as meet, work with and listen to, women currently working in the trades as carpenters, electricians, laborers and bricklayers,

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Labour group wants tougher penalties - By Walter Cordery, nanaimodailynews.comWorkSafe B.C. puts too cheap a price on life and its penalties are looked upon as the price of doing business, says Jim Sinclair, president of the B.C. Federation of Labour.Twenty-two of the 152 penalties imposed by WorkSafe B.C. in 2008 for safety violations were issued to organizations on Vancouver Island.The fines

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Green Jobs Will Help Us Build a Sustainable Economy - By Larry Cohen, president of Communications Workers of America (CWA).When I talk about job creation, I am not just talking about 'employment.' Americans need good jobs that pay well, offer benefits and have a future. Green jobs are good, union jobs. The typical green job utilizes the skills scores of middle-class Americans already have--from

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Green Jobs Aren't Necessarily Good Jobs - By James Pethokoukis, U.S. News & World Report These jobs are, for the most part, not the kind of gigs many middle class folks would have much interest in doing: bike repair, hazardous material cleanup, landscaping, tree cutting, attic insulation, large-scale green waste composting. Then again, these jobs really aren't geared toward the middle class to

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Scabby the Rat comes out winner in free speech battle - From Bill Mears, CNN.comThe court concluded that while townships have a right to maintain an 'aesthetic environment' and ensure public safety, its restrictions on expressive displays 'do not justify a content-based restriction of non-commercial speech.''There is no evidence to suggest that a rat balloon is significantly more harmful to

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NLRB Tosses Faux-Paisano Pizza Protesters'Complaint - By Joe Eskenazi, SF Weekly BlogsLate last month, we wrote about the head-turning sight of burly union carpenters dressed as Italian pizza chefs. The theatrical protest in front of Amici's East Coast Pizzeria in Mission Bay disguised a convoluted, modern-day Rashomon, complete with brawls, Ferraris, and calzone.

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Handgun seizure at crash scene highlights dangers to paramedics - By Elaine Mitropoulos, Comox Valley Echo, BC CanadaChute said according to WorkSafe B.C. paramedics were ranked as having the second most dangerous job in the province after ironworkers.They had a one in seven chance of being injured on the job, he added, whereas firefighters were ranked sixth and police officers number 21 on the

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Willful Fall Hazards, Other Violations Lead to Contractor's $106,200 Fine - Occupational Health & Safety NewsThe willful citations are for failing to fully plank working levels of the scaffold; to set up the scaffold on adequate foundation; to supply workers with a ladder or other safe access to the scaffold working levels; and to provide guardrails for employees working on upper levels of the

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"He Picked on the Wrong F___ing Sister!" - By Anonymous Indymedia User, Columbus Indymedia CenterSeveral others spoke, including myself. I explained my experience as an expelled member of the carpenters union and drew the parallel between Stern and Carpenters President Doug McCarron. I also made the point that McCarron's centralization of the union went hand in hand with his crawling into bed

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My father is a union buster. - Submitted by Anne Landman, Joe's Union ReviewMy father.You might be surprised to know he is famous, for terrible reasons. My father is a despicable man. My father is a sort of human molestor.An exploiter. A scoundrel. A world historical mother******* son of a bitch. (sorry grandma).You can read about him here: www.bermanexposed.org... A couple of years ago I

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Tokyo's E-Paper Disaster Signs Help You Escape Earthquakes, Godzillas - By John Herrman, GizmodoPower consumption for the whole unit, which can pull data from servers via Wi-Fi, is a mere 24W, and E-paper can keep displaying data after power has been cut, though it can't change it.

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Scientists shake out clues to earthquake damage - By Tony Perry, Los Angeles TimesThe wall whose bricks fell first had been constructed with a nail-like device that fastened the masonry to the wooden structure.The walls where bricks did not fall as easily were made with a screw-in device.'This is not a failure of the masonry, it's a failure of the connection system,' said Klingner. Earlier tests

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Michigan city grapples with power shutoffs - UPI, ArcaMax PublishingThe Bay City Commission voted Monday to increase the rates charged by the city owned power company despite the continuing uproar over the death of 93-year-old Marvin Schur, whose electricity had been shut off earlier this month.

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IBEW Local 1249 hit by Madoff scam - NewsChannel 9 WSYRThe list is growing on the number of unions affected by the Bernie Madoff scam. Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 1249 are trying to cope with the huge financial loss that Bernie Madoff has left them with.

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Building A Better Model For Construction Wages - By Jarrett Murphy, CityLimits.org Elly Spicer, a field representative for the New York and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation— a nonprofit partnership between the Carpenters Union and union contractors that works on issues important to both labor and management—says that more than 50 percent of Carpenters and Laborers in the city are

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Stimulus plan includes billions for new construction and jobs - By BILLY HOUSE and AMY DOMINELLO, via Sisters In The BrotherhoodDemocrats who control Congress contend the bill will create or save up to 4 million jobs, provide immediate tax breaks for 95 percent of workers and jumpstart the economy.Many congressional Republicans oppose the recovery package, however, saying it needs more tax cuts

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Who Will Be the First White House Farmer? - whitehousefarmer.comThis site is a forum to follow up on Michael Pollan’s call for a White House Farmer. The farmer will be charged with transforming “five prime south-facing acres of the White House lawn and plant[ing] in their place an organic fruit and vegetable garden” whose produce will be used by the White House Chef, and given to area food

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Slim Evans Has Been Hit By A Car - posted by Terry Glavin, Editor, Transmontanus BooksAfter the Colorado Coal Fields War, Slim came back to Canada where he worked in the mines in the Rocky Mountains. He was an organizer for the One Big Union and led an OBU strike at Drumheller, Alberta, where he got chucked in jail again, then got expelled from the American miners union that had gotten the

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THE WORKPLACE WARS AND CARD CHECK - Viper 123's Blog via TPM CafeThe National Labor Relations Act of 1935 gives most private sector employees three rights by law. 1. The right to organize. 2. To be able to engage in collective bargaining. 3. And to be able to take part in a strike. For anyone to form an argument that would make any of this unfair to employers would be baffling to me. My opinion

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Laborers Local 210 takes hit in Madoff scandal - By Michael Beebe, The Buffalo NewsCNBC reported earlier this month that Carpenters Local 747 in Syracuse had invested between $100 million and $150 million of its pension funds with Madoff.The business network also reported that Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 267 in the Syracuse area has lost $48 million of its pension funds, and other

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Vote for the Labour Website of the Year - LabourStart

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Mail carriers deliver million miles of safety - BY JOSH MROZINSKI, Scranton Times-Tribune, PA“You have to keep on your toes,” Mr. Shupp said. “I swear deer are aiming for the car.”

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Chilling Stats... Canada Post Needs You to Help Reduce Slips and Falls During Icy Winter Weather - Market Wire (press release)Statistics show a high number of slips, trips and involving delivery employees occur on residential and business properties where ice and snow can create hazardous conditions. By motivating the public to keep their stairs and walkways clear, the campaign will contribute to

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EPA Grant Awarded to Oregon Tradeswomen - Sisters In The Brotherhood"This Brownfields Job Training Grants provides a twofold benefit for the Portland metro area," said EPA’s Miller. “First, this grant helps build a skilled and productive workforce and then those skilled workers make their communities safer by sampling for and removing environmental hazards such as asbestos, chemicals, lead, and

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The Safety Duck Quacksthe occupational safety professional's blog

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A Protest with Extra Cheese: Costumed Carpenters' Questionable Claims - By Joe Eskenazi, SF Weekly BlogsSan Francisco is a town where you can often turn more heads wearing a three-piece suit than nothing at all. And yet, the sight of two burly union carpenters from the Local 22 handing out fliers in front of Amici's Pizza on King Street -- while dressed as Italian chefs - still manages to get

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Wal-Mart Caught Stealing - By David Macaray, CounterPunchPredictably, even though Wal-Mart clearly got caught with its hand in the cookie jar (the settlement was the result of 63 class-action lawsuits), the company has tried to put a happy face on it, claiming that the whole thing was rather “complicated,” and that the incidents in question occurred “a long time ago” and are in no way indicative

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Smart bridges under development with new federal grant - U of M News Service (press release), MIANN ARBOR, Mich.—Engineering smart bridges that can thoroughly discuss their health with inspectors is the goal of a new $19-million project led by the University of Michigan.A year and a half after the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, the five-year project aims to create the ultimate

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AFL-CIO, Breakaway Unions Discuss Reuniting - By KRIS MAHER, Wall Street Journal Mr. Sweeney strongly supports the return of the unions to the federation. Union leaders including Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, who led the revolt from the AFL-CIO in 2005, have said they want fundamental changes, including more federation resources devoted to organizing, before

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Beer saves building - By Casey Meserve, Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin, MAA stack of pallets holding boxes of beer saved the roof of the L. Knife & Sons beer distribution facility from further damage when a 200- by 75-foot portion of the roof collapsed Jan. 7.

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This Miracle Brought to You by America’s Unions - By Marcy Wheeler, EmptywheelThey're calling it a miracle--the successful landing of a US Airways jet in the Hudson and subsequent rescue of all 155 passengers. They're detailing the heroism of all involved, starting with the pilot and including cabin crew, ferry crews, and first responders. What they're not telling you is that just about every

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$68K in fines issued in Goliath crane collapse - By Robert Aicardi, Weymouth News, MAIronworker Robert Harvey, 28, of Weymouth was instantly killed when this leg crashed on Aug. 14, and three others were injured.OSHA said that Seattle-based Norsar, the company in charge of dismantling Goliath, and its subcontractors (Sarens and Daniel Marr and Son Co.) exposed workers to lethal dangers when they

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As jobs tonic, big digs may be a thing of the past By TAVIA GRANT, Globe and Mail, CanadaThe image is persuasive: Thousands of industrious workers wielding shovels to fix Canada's crumbling roads and bridges, netting a windfall of earnings for their families and motoring the economy out of recession. Trouble is, it may be an image from another era.While infrastructure spending is a great way to

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GREEN ROOFS: All You Need To Know - By Stephen and Rebekah Hren, The Carbon-Free HomeFor the owner of an existing home, the ability to create a green roof may be limited, due to concerns about weight, although not as much as might be initially supposed. Lightweight green roofs are possible on existing roofs with a pitch of up to 30 degrees. If the homeowner has access to the framing members of

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Are virtual pink slips a coward's act? - Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service When esthetician Crystal Bell was fired via Facebook, she spawned a debate over 'cyber sacking' and what employers owe their employees in times when electronic communication has become the norm.'I think it's going to be the way of the future, but for me it's not the human way to go,' said Ms. Bell, a single mother from

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BushWatch: Job Safety and Health Took Big Hits - AFL-CIO NOW BLOGThis is our second look back at eight years of BushWatch. Today we review an area where outgoing President George W. Bush’s actions have a daily, and maybe deadly, impact on men and women who go to work every day—job safety and health.Whether it was via regulation, legislation, executive order, policy decision or inaction, Bush

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Full head of hair can help job search; survey shows Americans take risks - The Canadian PressAmericans are also putting themselves at risk for a tumble, with 61 per cent saying they don't have a rubber mat at the bottom of the tub, while more than a third said they left items on the stairs at home.There is some good news, however: almost 90 per cent said they don't usually have a beer while using

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OSHA Compliance Survival Kit For the Construction Industry - DIY At HomeEvery employer has a responsibility to make sure all employees have a safe and stable work environment. These employees should have access to safety equipment and information at anytime they are on the jobsite. These employees should be able to go to their superiors with fears or concerns about safety without fear of

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Under the weather? Stay in bed - Caitlin Crawshaw, Canwest News ServiceIt's a common story for many workers: Though you're sick as a dog, you figure you're somehow not too sick to make it into work.It's a phenomenon known as 'presenteeism,' and like its better-known cousin absenteeism, it results in lost productivity. A 2004 article in the Harvard Business Review suggested presenteeism costs the

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"There is no way like the American Way" - by Pedro Meyer, ZoneZero, December 99"The interesting thing was that the sign I was looking at was a bit of Americana itself, a sign made ever so present in the 1937 picture by Margaret Bourke-White (MBW), created at the time of the Louisville flood."Picture History: "There's no way like the American way"

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First Woman Carpenter Apprentice in Orange County California, Judi Burgess - Sisters In The BrotherhoodPhoto title: Judi Burgess, first female carpenter apprentice in Orange County, Calif., 1963

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Republic Windows and Doors workers file labor board charges - By Robert Mitchum, Chicago Tribune'The union is asking the board to demand, among other things, the return of the machinery, the clients and the jobs to Chicago,' said Laurie Burgess, the attorney filing the charges. 'The workers at Republic are standing up for their rights and demanding a stake in their future.'

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Madoff Exposure Spreads to Labor Union Pension Funds - By: Charlie Gasparino, CNBC.comThe Syracuse carpenters local isn't alone. Pat Morin, business manager of Empire State Carpenters Union, is sifting through the wreckage in his own portfolio, which at the end of June had around $800 million in assets under management. Morin says his fund has exposure to Madoff as well, largely the result of

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A SCENE WE’D LIKE TO SEE REPEATED - PAI via ILCASizemore has set up sham organizations, illegally paid for fake signatures and perpetrated numerous other frauds, all part of his vitriolic anti-worker hatred. Well, he went too far several times and Oregon’s two teachers’ unions, which with the rest of labor battled Sizemore’s brainstorms, won judgments against him, which he’s evaded.A Multnomah

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Defend Democracy in the Labor Movement - By Cal Winslow, CounterPunchNow is the Hour! Stand Up for UHW! Stern, however, sees the strike as archaic, counterproductive: “It’s not good for America when people fight,” he told the wall Street Journal. Interviewed on National Public Radio, he confessed, “I don’t think anymore the power of unions comes from its ability to strike.” “I think it comes from

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Ontario’s apprentice ratio dispute continues to be split along union, non-union lines - Daily Commercial NewsToronto and York District Labour Council president John Cartwright says there’s no hope of getting union support on reduced ratios.“In the carpenters union it’s five to one, it varies by trade,” he says. “First, it’s a safety issue and we’ve seen that in areas like out west and in the U.S.

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Carpenters For Caroline - By Elizabeth Benjamin, New York Daily News"Caroline Kennedy has landed what I believe is her first labor endorsement in her non-campaign for Hillary Clinton's US Senate seat in the form of a statement released today by Michael J. Forde, executive secretary-treasurer of the city District Council of Carpenters."

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Students Voice Optimism About Future of Safety Professionals - Chief Engineer, IL"At my university one of the top career choices and areas of study is in construction," added Banks. "One trend I am seeing is more women choosing the construction safety field. I do not know the exact numbers but I am definitely seeing more women entering the field at my university. I’ve even seen this change since

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Manslaughter Charges Expected in Crane Collapse - By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, NYTimes.comManhattan prosecutors are expected to announce manslaughter charges on Monday against the rigger who was overseeing the raising of a tower crane on the East Side last year when it collapsed, killing seven, according to people briefed on the case.The rigger, William Rapetti, has also been charged with criminally

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Communion without union in Texas - By Stephanie Block, Spero News, TXLay personnel in chancery and parish offices are a fairly new phenomena in the history of the Church. The religious who formerly held such positions worked for the love of God and whatever material compensation they enjoyed came through their communities. While the lay employee may be every bit as idealistic and committed as the

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When 'poorhouse' wasn't only an expression - Tracey Tyler, Toronto Star, Canada The oldest surviving example of a poorhouse in Canada is in Wellington County. The building, a national historic site, opened in 1877, a time when 'pauperism' was considered a moral failing that could be erased through order and hard work.The poorhouse system was the foundation for today's government-funded social

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Businessman Argues for Employee Free Choice Act - by Seth Michaels, AFL-CIO NOW BLOGDiecedue responds to the baseless attacks against the Employee Free Choice Act and lays out in detail the three essential parts of the bill: * Stronger penalties for bosses who abuse or fire workers trying to form a union. * The guarantee of a first contract for newly recognized bargaining units. *

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Employers finding way around OSHA's tougher stance - by Alexandra Berzon, Las Vegas SunNo one saw Michael Taylor fall to his death at the Cosmopolitan construction site nearly a year ago.But in the investigation after his death, state inspectors found that one of the posts that held up a guardrail system had collapsed. A mistake by one of the many contractors on the site, it seemed, had created

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OSHA loses most of Monte Carlo fire case on appeal - by Alexandra Berzon, Las Vegas SunThe construction company cited by the state for worker safety violations in connection with the January fire atop the Monte Carlo was largely cleared of responsibility in an appeal decision this month.The state's Occupational Safety and Health Administration had fined Union Erectors, a structural steel company,

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Indecision and delay characterized Bush's OSHA - By R. JEFFREY SMITH, AP via Houston ChronicleCurrent and former career officials at OSHA say that such sagas were a recurrent feature during the Bush administration, as political appointees ordered the withdrawal of dozens of workplace health regulations, slow-rolled others, and altered the reach of its warnings and rules in response to industry

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Carpenters Hammer Home a Warning - by Allan Appel, New Haven Independent, CTIn materials submitted to the HANH commissioners, Conable (pictured) said, “At least eight different subcontractors have been shut down by the state on Konver sites in the past year alone for failing to provide workers with workers’ compensation coverage.”The union’s material also contains copies of news reports that

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The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008 - By Robert Weissman, CounterPunchAIG: Money for NothingCargill: Food ProfiteersChevron: "We can't let little countries screw around with big companies"Constellation Energy: Nuclear OperatorsChinese Nat. Petroleum Corp.: Fueling Violence in DarfurDole: The Sour Taste of PineappleGE: Creative AccountingImperial Sugar: 14 DeadPhilip Morris International:

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Average woman worker loses nearly half a million to pay discrimination - Press Associates, Inc. via Workday MinnesotaThe greatest difference between men and women workers was in legal services. That's because while 51% of the legal profession is female, the women start out in lower pay brackets and are concentrated in the lower-paying areas of the legal world. The men are the high-paid law firm

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Crazy And Stupid AccidentsA collection of of the most craziest and stupidest accidents found on the web.

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Workers' CompensationThis is a bricklayer's accident report, which was printed in the newsletter of the Australian equivalent of the Workers' CompensationBoard...Anne Feeney did a song about it called "The Sick Note" on her album Union Maid. It is available as a download: #21 on http://cdbaby.com/cd/annefeeney(I recall hearing the original accident report on the CBC Radio about 1971. As a side

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Irony: Giant Snow Globes Recalled, Might Burn Down Your House - By Wilson Rothman, GizmodoWhen exposed to sunlight, the snow globes can act as a magnifying glass and ignite nearby combustible materials, posing a fire hazard.

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The White-Collar Working Class: Has the American Middle Class Gone into Foreclosure? - By Brian Purnell, History News NetworkSo, Americans don’t make anything. As a country, we don’t really export much except entertainment, hip-hop and pornography. And we import and then buy a lot of cheap clothing, cars, electronic equipment, furniture, and plastic crap, which the rest of the world’s workers

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Number of Newfoundland and Labrador women in skilled trades increasing - Canadian Employment Law Today Article Another promotional campaign is aimed at younger female students, encouraging them to register for six new high school skilled trades courses. The goal is to increase the female participation rate of these courses from the current 25 per cent to 50 per cent.The number of women

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Can you 'superinsulate' that home, please? - By Martin LaMonica, CNET Green TechFrom an environmental perspective, Cheimets sees some irony in the fact that he's using a garage-full of oil-based foam insulation to save oil in his home. But he thinks superinsulation is a way to make a big leap in energy conservation--potentially in stages--without having to rebuild or alter the look of existing

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The Hazards of Deconstruction - Posted by Jon Coppelman, Workers Comp InsiderTiming and SequenceIn deconstruction, it's not just what you do, but when you do it. At the time the fire broke out, the building's sprinkler system had been dismantled. The fire exits had been sealed off (to facilitate asbestos abatement). A standpipe designed to carry water to the upper floors had also been dismantled.

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Officials: Pigeon Poop Led To Canopy Collapse - KPHO Phoenix'Our officers are not structural engineers,' Wilmot said, 'but a large amount of pigeon excrement has built up on that roof. It had been up there quite awhile.'

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Bridge Collapse Victims Still In Critical Condition - CBS 46, GA Workers were pouring concrete for a new 600-foot, 45-foot long canopy walk when the bridge collapsed. It appears the victims are all construction workers, according to investigators.Electrical worker Juan Padilla and his partner were taking a break from doing work under the bridge at the time of the collapse.'It sounded like an

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Bayer Explosion Kills Two, Shines Light on Communication Problems - Story by Gretchen Mae Stone, State Journal, WVResponders said it was inexcusable that Bayer didn't provide information sooner, and that firefighters and officers were in areas that may or may not have been safe.Tom Dover of Bayer said a company representative believed he had issued a standby, but that obviously hadn't happened.

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Black/Brown Coalition Fueled Big Union Win - By David Bacon, New America Media If black and Latino immigrant workers hadn't found a way to work together, the union drive would have ended with the raids. And if the company and ICE had succeeded in convincing half the plant that the other half really had no right to work because they lacked legal immigration status, workers would have been

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In the Crosswalk, Age Can Be a Matter of Life and Death - Root Cause Analysis BlogIt put him in the path of a swerving automobile (a taxicab, you may not be shocked to learn). Thus did Mr. Bliss enter the history books. He is believed to be the first person in the United States, indeed in the Western Hemisphere, to be killed by a motor vehicle.But he bore another distinction. He was 68, possibly

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"We could be talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs" - NERCC BlogA State House News Service Story released today contained a lot of encouraging information for those in the building trades. 'At its height, we could be talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs,' Patrick said.Every state in the union is currently working to prioritize projects and get them ready to go when the federal

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The Little Brown Church in the Wildwood - book review by Ruth Robinson, The Chattanoogan, TNFor every church celebrating it's centennial there is always a beginning. That is true of The Little Brown Church in the Wildwood in Walden on Signal Mountain. Its history is similar to the history of the mountain itself.

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A Clever Advert for Fast Drying Concrete - via visualstreak.com

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I can see the economic downturn from here - Globe and Mail, Canada 'It won't break my heart to see things slow down a bit,' said Mr. Gardiner, 50, who has three recessions and 30 years as a crane operator under his belt. He's spent the last eight of those years erecting four high-rise condos at the sprawling Concord CityPlace site at the foot of Spadina Avenue. And there's more work ahead from

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Did girder buckle before it fell? See for yourself on video - By Shelby Sebens, StarNewsOnline.com, NCOak Island | A video released Friday shows a 121-ton girder apparently buckling before it collapsed Wednesday morning, killing one worker and injuring two others at the construction site of the second Oak Island bridge.Kyle Thomas, the town’s new public information officer, was videotaping the

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