Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Uncategorized
Holiday Schedule for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26, 2009
Carpenters, Cement Masons, Laborers & Rodsetters: Not a paid holiday. If worked, double-time.
Rodsetters Foreman: Paid holiday. If worked, triple time, which includes holiday pay.
Operating Engineers: Paid holiday. Those on a weekly basis provided they work the scheduled workday before and after the holiday. If worked, double-time which includes holiday pay.
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Uncategorized
Click on link to view GBCA Wage Rate Chart published 11-1-09.
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Uncategorized
According to the Associated General Contractors of America, every state but one, North Dakota, lost construction jobs in October.
“A shockingly large portion of the construction industry’s workforce has simply evaporated,” said Ken Simonson, chief economist for the association.
He added that the national construction unemployment rate of 18.7 percent was the highest of any sector in October and the industry accounted for one-fifth of all job losses in the past year, even though construction only employs one out of 20 workers.
The five biggest percentage losses in construction employment over the year occurred in Nevada (26.9 percent, or 30,200 jobs), Arizona (24.2 percent, or 42,600 jobs), Tennessee (22.3 percent, or 29,300 jobs), Kentucky (20.8 percent, or 17,600 jobs) and Connecticut (19.3 percent or 12,500 jobs).
According to the AGC, locally:
Delaware has lost -11.6% of its construction jobs from one year ago and ranks 16th in the nation for loss of construction jobs.
New Jersey has lost -13.4% of its construction jobs from one year ago and ranks 24th in the nation for loss of construction jobs.
Pennsylvania has lost -10.6% of its construction jobs from one year ago and ranks 13th in the nation for loss of construction jobs.
View State-By-State Employment Numbers Here.
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Local Upate
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that for all the political drama and commuter inconvenience it caused, the SEPTA strike may have been just a curtain-raiser to a bigger act of labor strife, featuring the City of Philadelphia and 22,000 unionized city workers now laboring under expired contracts.
… Read More
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Local Upate
Philly.com has posted a quick guide to pensions — the issue at the heart of the Septa strike. Union President Willie Brown has announced several times that workers will stay on the picket line until management agrees to fully fund their pension plan. … Read More
Friday, November 6th, 2009
National
Source:http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/05/map-unemployment-rates-by-state/
The Obama administration says the Recovery Act created or saved 640,000 jobs through September but the unemployment rate is still very high through out the nation. In fact, the government reported this week that the national unemployment rate was 10.2 percent for October.
The jobless rate is well above the 9.9 percent that economists expected and breaks the psychological barrier of 10 percent, topping double digits for the first time in 26 years. In all, employers shed 190,000 non-farm jobs last month.
Map Source: CNN
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Local Upate
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Local Upate
Source: Tony Auth, Philadelphia Inquirer 11-5-09 www.philly.com
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Local Upate
SEPTA’s largest union went on strike this morning, stopping bus, subway and trolley service on all routes.
Transport Workers Local 234, (approx. 5,000 operators and mechanics) walked out of negotiations at midnight on November 2, which according to SEPTA spokesman Richard Maloney, they left behind SEPTA’s offer of an 11.5% pay increase over 5 years, an 11% increase in pension contributions by the end of the deal and a $1,250 signing bonus. The contract would be retroactive to March, which is when the union’s contract expired, Maloney said. There would be no pay raise in the first year of the contract SEPTA proposed.
Union workers are seeking an annual 4% wage hike and want to keep the current 1 % contribution they make toward the cost of their health care coverage.
… Read More
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
National
The construction industry continues to suffer from significant declines in privately-funded construction investments, with new federal figures showing private construction investments declined by 20.6% between Sept 08 and Sept 09. The new Census Bureau figures show there’s no sign of an economic recovery yet for the nation’s construction industry. … Read More
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