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Share Rensselaer to Dutchess County Transmission Line Upgrades to Advance New Yorks Nation-Leading Clean Energy Goals and Create Jobs Project Part of $2 Billion in Transmission Investments to Accelerate Integration of Renewable Energy Resources As Proposed in the Governors 2021 State of the State, Transmission Projects Across the State Will Add 250 Miles of Planned Investments To Maximize Renewable Energy Use    WYSIWYG Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced construction b...

“Every day I’m on the phone with someone trying to convince them to not cancel and take their business to another state,” said Steve Goodling, President and CEO of the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Singer Glen Campbell immortalized the telephone lineman in the song “Wichita Lineman,” which was written by Jimmy Webb when he saw a lineman working alone atop a telephone pole as he was driving along the Kansas-Oklahoma border. A group of women want to remember the electrical linemen who are killed and injured each year building and maintaining the nation’s electrical infrastructure, and are proposing a national memorial be built near Freeland. “The job is very dangerous,â...

Advertisement Missouri Employer Had Just Cause To Terminate Union Employee Who Tested Positive For Marijuana, Despite Lack of Workplace Impairment Tuesday, March 2, 2021 A Missouri-based manufacturer of animal pharmaceuticals had just cause to terminate a 37-year employee who tested positive for marijuana despite the union’s argument that the employee’s personal use of CBD oil and marijuana did not cause impairment at work.   Virbac Corporation and International Brotherhood of E...

A Missouri-based manufacturer of animal pharmaceuticals had just cause to terminate a 37-year employee who tested positive for marijuana despite the union’s argument that the employee’s...

Pro-Union parade draws more than 50 people   Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson A car with a "Union Strong" poster participates Friday on First Street in Havre in a parade supporting unions and opposing right-to-work legislation in the Legislature Havre saw a "Union Strong Car Parade and Celebration" last Friday evening, with almost 50 cars, many with more than one occupant, drive through Havre in support of local union workers in response to right-to-work bills making their way through the Monta...

Finance Minister Mike de Jong says lack of job growth in the past two years is disappointing, but government is continuing its emphasis on natural gas and trade. Tom Fletcher/Black Press VICTORIA – Finance Minister Mike de Jong unveiled B.C.’s second straight surplus budget Tuesday, with few spending and tax changes as the province plans for economic growth driven by natural gas exports. The biggest tax change is that provincial tobacco tax goes up 32 cents a pack April 1, on top of the la...

Today, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, National Economic Council (NEC) Director Brian Deese, and National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy met with more than a dozen automotive industry manufacturers as well as labor leaders from the United Autoworkers (UAW) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) to discuss common priorities around supporting the economic recovery, creating union jobs, and tackling the climate crisis. Secretary Buttigieg, NEC Director Deese, and Nat...

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POLITICO Biden squeezed between promises to go green and bolster unions Dems are cranking out bills filled with carrots for developers of zero-emission infrastructure, but with pro-labor strings attached. While both sides are eager to push clean energy projects forward, their disagreements will test President Joe Biden’s vow to be both the greenest and the most pro-union president in history. | Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Link Copied President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda is in dang...