Senate Approves Pension Measure But Spikes Wage Hike, Tax Relief - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Senate blocked action Aug. 3 on the House-passed Family Prosperity Act, the so-called "trifecta" bill that bundled a minimum wage hike, estate tax relief and an extension of about 20 tax refo
Publication Date: 04 August , 2006
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NEW Ad Campaign Aims To Attract 'A Few Good Women' - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Femi Agani came to New York City in 1983 to pursue a career as a fashion designer. Inspired by her three children, she opened a children’s clothing boutique in Brooklyn. Then reality set in. Agani fe
Publication Date: 10 July , 2006
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PBS&J Works Through Woes Of $36-Million Embezzlement - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Tampa-based PBS&J is engaged in a costly effort to repay about 12 to 15 state departments of transportation for reimbursed overhead expenses that were inflated as part of an alleged embezzlement schem
Publication Date: 03 July , 2006
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PBS&J Still Struggling with Aftermath of $36-Million Fraud - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Tampa-based PBS&J is engaged in a costly effort to repay about 12 to 15 state departments of transportation for reimbursed overhead costs that were inflated as part of an alleged embezzlement scheme ru
Publication Date: 27 June , 2006
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AFL-CIO Unveils New Orleans Strategy - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
While the federal government and timid investors dawdle on the sidelines, contemplating moving into New Orleans when things get back to normal, the AFL-CIO is rolling up its sleeves and investing $1 billio
Publication Date: 16 June , 2006
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Schism in Congress, Solidarity in the Street- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
After immigration reform legislation bogged down in Washington, D.C., last week, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets from New York to San Diego on April 10. In city after city, thron
Publication Date: 11 April , 2006
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Building Trades Have Some Success As Talks Go On with Unhappy Leaders - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At a time when the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Dept. is reeling from dissension, BCTD leadership has restored a sense of unity within its ranks by announcing April 3 that the teamsters woul
Publication Date: 10 April , 2006
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New Market Recovery Group Faces Some Bumps - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
There have been some obstacles as construction unions forming the National Construction Alliance try for a formal launch, now set for May 1.
Publication Date: 03 April , 2006
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ASA's Ethics Task Force Recommends the Golden Rule - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At the first meeting of its ethics task force, members of the American Subcontractors Association did some soul searching. They recognize that improving ethics in the construction industry means not only i
Publication Date: 20 March , 2006
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Quiz - Business Integrity: Are you an Angel or Devil? - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Specialty trade contractors and subcontractors operate in a challenging business environment. The completion of a quality construction project in a timely manner requires an infinite amount of cooperation
Publication Date: 20 March , 2006
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Utility Contractors Plan Public Awareness Program- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Facing cuts in federal funding for water and sewer infrastructure after a decade of stable funds, a consortium of construction industry trade groups is planning to go to the boss. The Clean Water Council,
Publication Date: 13 March , 2006
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Split Has Many Eyeing Future Relationships - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Top officials of the laborers’ and operating engineers’ unions are sorting out the fine details of their decision to leave the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Dept. to form a b
Publication Date: 27 February , 2006
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Home Is Where the Job Is - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Like a lot of construction workers, Kevin Tamor was more or less born into his profession. "My family has always been in construction," he said. "You fall in that pit, and stay in that rut. I grew up in it
Publication Date: 10 February , 2006
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Building Trades See Opportunity in Gulf Coast Rebuilding - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
It’s not exactly business as usual when the president of the ironworkers’ union comes to New Orleans. But, then again, not much is business as usual since Katrina hit on Aug. 29th.
Publication Date: 13 January , 2006
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Bush Fills NLRB Slot Through Recess Appointment - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
President Bush has moved to bring the National Labor Relations Board closer to full strength, with the Jan. 4 recess appointment of Cleveland labor lawyer Peter N. Kirsanow to a board seat. Kirsanow, whose
Publication Date: 06 January , 2006
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Owners Seek Fixes for Labor and Other Construction Woes - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Big construction owners share the plight of their contractors in labor and productivity shortfalls on the jobsite and are pressing colleagues and contractors to find new solutions.
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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ULLICO Settles Georgine Lawsuit - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
ULLICO Inc., the insurer owned by union pension funds, has reached a $13-million settlement with Robert A. Georgine, its former CEO and longtime president of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades De
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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ULLICO Reaches $13M Settlement with Georgine - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
ULLICO Inc., the insurer owned by union pension funds, has reached a $13-million settlement with its former CEO, Robert A. Georgine, longtime president of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Dept.
Publication Date: 14 November , 2005
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With Proposed Fines of $127,000, OSHA Targets Pike Electric - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Federal safety officials have tagged Mount Airy, N.C.-based Pike Electric Corp. as a repeat violator of safety regulations, proposing fines of $127,000 against the contractor. The proposed fines came after
Publication Date: 07 October , 2005
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IBEW’s Barry Dies at Age 81 - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
An early supporter of renewed union organizing activity and of close cooperation with union employers, J.J. "Jack" Barry, former president of the International Brother Hood of Electrical Workers,
Publication Date: 26 September, 2005
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Maloney Resigns Building Trades Post Due to Family Health Problem - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Joseph Maloney, the secretary-treasurer of the Building & Construction Trades Dept. of the AFL-CIO and one of the architects of the Helmets to Hardhats program, will step down from his post next month
Publication Date: 22 September, 2005
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Machinists Make Bid To Join The Building Trades’ Group - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
As the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Dept. grapples with life without the carpenters and teamsters, a possible financial white knight could be on the way.
Publication Date: 19 September, 2005
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Mechanical Crafts Unite To Protect Turf - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Six building trade unions representing mechanical crafts have formed a new division within the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Dept.
Publication Date: 19 September, 2005
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Bush Picks New OSHA Chief - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
President Bush has selected Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., former chairman of a federal safety review panel, to be the head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In a Sept. 15 announcement, the Whit
Publication Date: 16 September, 2005
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Bush Suspends Davis-Bacon Rules for Rebuilding - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Congress approved a second Hurricane Katrina emergency spending package and President Bush Sept. 8 waived Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage rules on all federal construction in the hurricane region.
Publication Date: 09 September, 2005
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Carpenters' Chief Expected to Survive Reelection Challenge - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Douglas J. McCarron, seeking his third term as carpenters' union president, hailed the union's withdrawal from the AFL-CIO nearly five years ago as a trailblazing action that was good for members.
Publication Date: 29 August , 2005
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Helmets to Hardhats Gains Direct Entry for Apprentices - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In 11 states, military veterans who want to enter a union construction apprenticeship program through the Helmets to Hardhats recruitment plan now get to move to the front of the applicant line. And more
Publication Date: 29 August , 2005
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Proposed Solidarity Charters Draw Some BCTD Opposition - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A plan by the AFL-CIO that would allow locals from national unions that disaffiliated from the labor federation to continue participating in central labor bodies is creating its own controversy.
Publication Date: 29 August , 2005
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With Easy Reelection, Carpenters' McCarron Looks Ahead
Delegates to the carpenters’ union 39th convention in Las Vegas overwhelmingly re-elected union chief Douglas J. McCarron to a third five-year term on Aug. 25. He easily defeated an opponent who dis
Publication Date: 26 August , 2005
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High Cost of Solidarity Charters May Keep Local Unions on Sidelines - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The AFL-CIO is asking for a lot of money from the local unions that want to continue participating in central labor bodies, even though the national union they belong to disaffiliated from the labor federation.
Publication Date: 19 August , 2005
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Building Trade Leaders Have Smooth Sailing - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
For the second time in five years, Edward C. Sullivan and Joseph Maloney have been elected president and secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Dept. Their first electio
Publication Date: 15 August , 2005
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AFL-CIO Proposes ‘Solidarity Charters’ to Retain Disaffiliated Locals - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
As the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Dept. continues to grapple with ways to ease the uncertainty – and keep jobsites free from disruption – of how to deal with the loss of the
Publication Date: 12 August , 2005
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McGraw-Hill Construction | A New Idea That’s Not Really New
Ed Sullivan knows a thing or two about bringing about change.
Publication Date: 10 August , 2005
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Split AFL-CIO Reelects Sweeney - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In addition to reelecting Sweeney and his leadership team, the 800 delegates attending the labor conclave approved new rules for organizing, mobilizing political and legislative efforts and an increase in funds to strengthening the federation an
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Publication Date: 08 August , 2005
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New Labor Coalition Will Shape Future Construction Organizing - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Change to Win Coalition, formed by seven unions unhappy with AFL-CIO leadership, has pledged to rebuild the labor movement one member at a time. The presidents of those unions vow to focus their energy
Publication Date: 05 August , 2005
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AFL-CIO in Turmoil As Big Unions Bolt - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
With less than two weeks between the end of the AFL-CIO convention and the start of the Building and Construction Trades Dept. conclave, BCTD leaders are meeting to reshape resolutions that will be conside
Publication Date: 01 August , 2005
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Teamsters' Withdrawal From AFL-CIO Means Building Trades Ouster- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The decision by the teamsters’ union to leave the AFL-CIO means that the construction division of the 1.3-million-member union can no longer be affiliated with the labor federation’s Building and
Publication Date: 26 July , 2005
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Four Dissident Unions Will Boycott AFL-CIO Convention- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The leaders of four labor unions, including one with ties to construction, said July 24 that they will not participate in the AFL-CIO convention that begins July 25 in Chicago.
Publication Date: 25 July , 2005
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As First CURT Tripartite Papers Are Aired, Dissent Plagues AFL-CIO - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
About one year after reaching consensus on initiatives to increase market share and make union construction more profitable, the Construction Users Roundtable Tripartite Initiative has issued its first pos
Publication Date: 22 July , 2005
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Carpenters Join Coalition While BCTD Talks Heat Up
The carpenters’ move, while not unexpected, comes just weeks before the AFL-CIO convention where proposals for significant reforms are expected. On June 27, the AFL-CIO’s 54-member executive council approved two proposals for conventio
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Publication Date: 04 July , 2005
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AFL-CIO Unrest May Lead to BCTD Split
Uniting the five unions, which represent a variety of industries including construction, is the goal of expanding organizing efforts and growing market share. "Workers cannot win a better life unless more workers belong to unions," the
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Publication Date: 27 June , 2005
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Carrying the Cause of Ethics to Warsaw and Rome
Warsaw, Poland – June 11, 2005
Publication Date: 27 June , 2005
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Plumbers Expel and Fine Maddaloni, Patchell for Fraud
A special independent panel of three retired union officers last month found Maddaloni and Patchell guilty of violating provisions in the union’s constitution. In addition to the permanent expulsion, Maddaloni was fined $700,000 and Patchel
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Publication Date: 27 June , 2005
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Carrying the Cause of Ethics to Cairo
Right now, I'm in Cairo, Eqypt, one of the oldest cities in the world. I'm at the IV International Symposium on Environmental Hydrology and the IV Regional Conference on Civil Engineering Technology.
Publication Date: 14 June , 2005
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