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Komatsu Announces Layoffs at Mining Equipment Plant

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Komatsu America says it will lay off employees at its Peoria, Ill. The facility employees almost 600, but the company says its union agreement prevents it from saying how many will be laid off pending notification of the union. Komatsu America says it will lay off employees at its Peoria, Ill. March 7, 2013.

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Labor Deal Ends Seattle Crane Strike

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6 after a local union reached an agreement with the Associated General Contractors of America. A 17-day construction worker strike in Seattle and Western Washington state ended Sept.

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NJ Mall Project Stirring

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Chris Christie called, “the ugliest damn building in New Jersey and maybe America.” For the last couple years, Triple Five Developers (owner of the Mall of America in MN), have been parlaying with NJ state officials over the financing package. The project developers got worried and cut costs, producing what Gov.

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Project Labor Agreements (PLAs): What Contractors Need to Know

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In early February 2022, President Biden signed an executive order requiring project labor agreements (PLAs) on all federal projects over $35 million. This means contractors working on eligible projects should expect to pay more in labor and benefits and may have to enroll their workers with a union, even if they’re an open shop.

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Newly Weds Foods To Invest $57 Million, Create 115 Jobs In Northern Kentucky

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Soon more retail products on grocery store shelves and prepared items on restaurant menus in North America will contain ingredients made in Kentucky.”. Newly Weds Foods joins an impressive group of companies in the business park, including Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America. “We John Schickel, of Union.

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Last Chance

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Last month, on Earth Day, the United Nations staged a touchy-feely signing ceremony for the Paris climate accord, an agreement reached by 175 nations in December that aims to curb the relentless rise of man-made carbon emissions and keep average global temperatures from increasing more than 3.6 leading an effort to implement them.

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The Road to Recovery in Detroit

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It began with a groundbreaking flexible labor agreement in 2007 between Cerberus and the United Autoworkers Union which reduced entry-level wages for new hires to less than $16 per hour (longtime union workers at Jefferson North were making $28 per hour). The new contract eventually facilitated the takeover of Chrysler by Fiat.

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