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Majority of those working on Enbridge pipeline from outside Minnesota Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/Alex Kormann - Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS Enbridge utility contractors worked to identify and mark an older Enbridge pipeline, Line 16, at one of the Line 3 work sites in Carlton, Minn., in 2020. Enbridge has fallen considerably short of goals to hire Minnesota workers for its controversial new oil 340-mile pipeline across the northern part of the s...

President Biden met with labor leaders at the White House Wednesday to push his proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package and infrastructure development plans. 

File Photo Paramedics in Nova Scotia are taking to social media to once again combat an ongoing issue of personnel availability and shortages. #CodeCritical is being used on Twitter by paramedics in the province to highlight moments of time when an area of the province has either few or no ambulance crews available for emergency calls. Over the last two days, a total of 27 #CodeCriticals were called across the province, seven of those were in Southwestern Nova Scotia. Michael Nickerson, NS Para...

Hillsborough commissioners boost apprenticeship opportunities for young workers They approve one program that targets young, low-income adults, another that would mandate apprentices on county construction jobs.     Commissioner Gwen Myers shown on the HGTV broadcast of the commissions Feb. 3 meeting. [ Tampa Bay Times ] TAMPA — Hillsborough commissioners want to be sure on-the-job training is available in the county. The commission agreed unanimously Wednesday to start a new progra...

The pact covers 22 full time and 145 part time staff who work in facilities, maintenance and art handling operations.

Paramedics in Nova Scotia are sounding the alarm. A series of tweets from the union claims there is a serious ambulance shortage at times in the province.

The National Labor Relations Board's new acting prosecutor is moving to end high-profile litigation that former general counsel Peter Robb filed to block unions from deploying inflatable rats and erecting large banners in some protests.

eye on the news Biden’s Empty Environmentalism Shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline shows the new president’s preference for symbolism over substance on environmental policy. Politics and law Infrastructure and energy For at least the past two decades, the American environmentalist movement has been split into two camps. On one side, less conspicuous, are the conservationists—dedicated to working with public and private actors to keep our air and water clean, preserve A...

Inman Connect Real estate giant Realogy Holdings Corp. has beat back a lawsuit alleging the firm artificially inflated its stock price by failing to disclose its “anticompetitive” practice of requiring homesellers to pay the buyer broker commissions “at inflated rates.” In July 2019, investor plaintiff Sasa Tanaskovic filed a federal lawsuit seeking class-action status in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey alleging securities fraud against Realogy and a slew of its executives: former...

Inside Antifa I grew up admiring “the crusading syndicated labor columnist” Victor Riesel, as the New York Times called him in its 1995 obituary. In a scene with overtones of On the Waterfront, Riesel had been blinded in an assault just after leaving Lindy’s restaurant in midtown Manhattan at 3:00 a.m. on April 5, 1956. “An hour earlier,” the Times recalled, Riesel “had finished a radio broadcast in which he assailed the leadership of a Long Island local of the International Union ...