A budget cut is likely for the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a major detriment to the safety of workers and construction costs. The House has proposed that the 2014 budgets for OSHA and other DOL agencies be cut 18.6 percent from their sequestered 2013 budgets, down from $150 billion to a $122 billion department-wide budget. The
With Labor Day only days away, it’s fitting that some news outlets have devoted time to discussing labor unions and their presence in the current economy. The following is an article posted on The Hill’s Congress Blog entitled “Five reasons for optimism about unions this Labor Day”: The week following Labor Day, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
The Sheet Metal Workers’ Local #33 Youngstown District will be accepting Apprentice Applications August 26th, 27th, and 29th, and again on November 18th, 19th, and 20th of 2013. At The Builders Association 1372 Youngstown-Kingsville Rd. S.E. Vienna, Ohio 44473 8 am – 4:30 pm. Phone number (330) 539-6050. You will need to bring the following items: High School Transcripts High School Diploma or
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is moving closer to recommending a 20-criteria safety and health checklist for companies bidding on federal construction contracts going forward. To evaluate applicants, the newest version of the checklist will allow procurement officers to score each of the twenty items on a scale of one (“no compliance”) to five (“full compliance”) points. Among the
The Sheet Metal Workers Local #33, Cleveland District Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (JATC) was recently internationally recognized by the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) as the Best New IPAF Training Centre of the Year. Our training center is the first of its kind in the U.S. to earn the distinction at the International Awards for Powered Access, which celebrates
Our neighbor to the north, Michigan, becomes the latest “So Called Right to Work” state this week, effectively stripping its workers of protections afforded by unions. The legislation, passed during a December lame duck session that did not provide any opportunity for public comment, takes effect today. In Ohio and West Virginia we are fortunate to remain in the shrinking
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