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Immigration reform would allow more construction workers into the province: OSTA chair

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We were having meetings with governments in 2009, 2010 with our concerns about the quality issues on building size. its been there for a very long time. rewind to 1984. tower blocks are being completely recovered i or reclad and new materials. this is a bbc documentary called the great british housing disaster and engineers warned of the possible fire risks from cladding even back then. i think its absolutely essential that anything that it been placed on or around existing block should be consi...

On or around existing block should be considered very carefully in relation to a very serious fire. we think the citizens - being used were fire risk? frankly, yes. would you be prepared to them? no. industry experts have warned that the construction workforce has become used to marking its own homework. weve lost the independent, quality checks on construction sites that were always part and parcel of the process. for example, architects and engineers who used to go on site regularly to supervi...

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Legalize people here illegally? >> right now the city of phoenix is the fastest growing city in the entire country. we added more people in 2016 than any other city. we arere constrained for our workforce right now. we just had some folks from the homebuilding industry come into the city of phoenix and say we could do so much more if we had a larger construction workforce. we could be creating jobs, we coulde be building new affordabe homes for people to live in, but we dont have the workforce w...

>> reporter: but thats not the only thing at play. billions of dollars of government spending pumped into the economy meant to stimulate jobs, investments in infrastructure like roads, left women for the most part behind. only 5% of women work in transportation, and they make up only 13% of the construction workforce. add to that massive cuts to public sector jobs like teaching. women make up just over half of the public workforce, but eight out of every ten public sector jobs lost belonged to a...

Illegally? >> right now the city of phoenix is the fastest growing city in the entire country. we have added more people in 2016 than any other city and we are constrained by our workforce right now. we just had some folks from the home building industry come into the city of phoenix and say we could do so much more if we had a larger construction workforce. well could be creating jobs. we could be building new affordable homes for people to live in. but we dont have the workforce we need. and t...

On card check provision. >> he has signed a federal executive order. >> eric: i will let you get to it? >> unicon destruction workers privilege pass. >> eric: here is the issue, we have state, local, municipalities a pension bomb ready to explode on them, some say up to $3 trillion if they dont renegotiate union mentions going forward, those contracts they there are going to be bankruptcies across the country. >> our local, municipal governments is not about the fact that there are pension issue...