WIN Union Economy Newsdesk: Unions In The Forefront of Fight Against...
By JoAnne Pow!ers The Transpacific Partnership, or T-P-P, is a so-called “free trade agreement” that makes 1993’s controversial North American Free Trade Agreement look tiny in comparison. The long...
View ArticleWIN Union Economy Desk: Diversity and Economy Benefit from Building Trades...
By JoAnne Pow!ers For over a century, America’s Building and Construction Trades have trained their skilled workforce through apprenticeships. The apprenticeship system is a billion-dollar a year...
View ArticleWIN Union Economy Desk: “Helmets To Hard Hats” Connects Veterans To...
By JoAnne Pow!ers With high levels of out-of-work veterans, the U.S. Department of Defense spends nearly a billion dollars a year on unemployment compensation for military personnel transitioning back...
View ArticleWIN Union Economy Desk: Prevailing Wage Adds 1000s of Jobs and Billions Of...
By JoAnne Pow!ers The state of California has recently enacted legislation to encourage more of its cities to create prevailing wage standards which require wages on public works projects to conform...
View ArticleWIN Union Economy Desk: Omaha Firefighters Insurance Trust Maintains Quality...
By JoAnne Pow!ers Facing ever-climbing health care costs, fire fighters in Omaha are taking control of their health care management to maintain a high level of benefits and low premiums for workers....
View ArticleWIN Union Economy Desk: The AFL-CIO’s Building America Revitalizing...
By JoAnne Pow!ers Building America CDE, a subsidiary of the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust, works to revitalize low-income communities while creating needed jobs, including union construction jobs...
View ArticleWIN Union Economy Desk: Union Economy Brings Much Needed Jobs to Low-Income...
By JoAnne Pow!ers In addition to bringing billions of dollars to building projects revitalizing low-income communities, the Housing Investment Trust and its subsidiary Building America are bringing...
View ArticleWIN Union Economy Desk: Housing Investment Trust Focuses on NYC Affordable...
By JoAnne Pow!ers The AFL-CIO’s Housing Investment Trust, or HIT, has invested billions of dollars of union and public employee pension capital in building projects across the nation. All of the...
View ArticleBuilding Investment Trust T3: A Sustainable First For U.S. Construction
By JoAnne Pow!ers At the end of July the AFL-CIO’s Building Investment Trust broke ground on the T3, an innovative 220,000 square foot office building in Minnesota’s North Loop neighborhood. T3 stands...
View ArticleTeamsters: NLRB Decision Is Victory For Workers Across America
By Doug Cunningham The National Labor Relations Board Thursday ruled for workers in a case brought by the Teamsters against Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. that changes the definition of a joint...
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