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Wellness is for builders, not just for buildings

BD+C

As an industry, we have done an excellent job at emphasizing and improving site safety so that everyone goes home safe every day. But what about going home healthy? .

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Tocci Building Companies Enters Partnership with NERCC

Construction Superintendent Magazine

. -- Tocci Building Companies has entered into a collective bargaining agreement with The New England Regional Council of Carpenters. frontpage'

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Non-union employees may have union rep accompany OSHA inspector

FDR Safety

21, 2013, was in response to a request from Steve Sallman, a health and safety specialist with the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union. As noted in an article by the Constangy Brooks & Smith law firm, the letter is provoking a backlash from employers.

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SEIU uses new opening to go along on OSHA inspections

FDR Safety

The letter also said that employees in a workplace without a collective bargaining agreement may designate a union-affiliated individual to act as their personal representative.

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Do the laws of math apply in Washington?

FDR Safety

Therefore, a person affiliated with a union without a collective bargaining agreement or with a community representative can act on behalf of employees as a walk-around representative so long as the individual has been authorized by the employees to serve as their representative.”. 29 U.S.C. §

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

Levelset

In early February 2022, President Biden signed an executive order requiring project labor agreements (PLAs) on all federal projects over $35 million. What is a project labor agreement? A project labor agreement, or PLA, is a prehire collective bargaining agreement that sets the wages and benefits for all workers on a project.

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2013 Interpretations of OSHA Regulations

Safety Services Company

Even while creating new regulations and amending current ones to fit the workplace’s changing safety standards, OSHA is hard at work providing guidance material to help employers follow their rules, and answering questions and providing guidance on existing rules. February 4, 2013. January 13, 2013.

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