The president is trying to square environmentalists’ demands to stop burning fossil fuels with labor leaders' desire for union jobs linked to oil and gas.
Painters Union member wins award
Rockford Register Star
ROCKFORD Painters District Council No. 30 Local Union No. 607 member Sandra Sigala recently received the International Tradeswomen Heroes Award.”
The award is a monthly award established by the North America’s Building Trades Unions to highlight female union trades workers across the U.S. and Canada that lead by example and perform their duties at an outstanding level.
Sigala first joined PDC 30 Local Union No. 607 as an apprentice in 2005. She graduated the program in 2008, earning the Secretary-Treasurer’s Award for her outstanding performance in school, on the job, with the union,and throughout the community. Now a foreman painter, she continues to build upon those performance attributes.
Elected officials, community groups, advocates, and academics from 24 states have signed a letter calling on the Biden administration to remove the ban on local hire, which forbids cities and states from using local hire policies to specify geographic preference for job creation in any procurement process funded with federal dollars.
Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail announces diversity, equity and inclusion plan Written by David C. Lester, Managing Editor
Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail (BWRR), the developer of the Baltimore-Washington Superconducting Maglev (SCMaglev) Project, [yesterday] announced ambitious goals that would deliver billions of dollars of economic benefits to communities of color, women, and their businesses in constructing and operating the $13 billion high-speed train project.
Born from a commitment of corporate social responsibility, BWRR’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Plan for Economic Opportunity in Maryland will create unprecedented access to contracts and wages for many of Maryland’s disadvantaged and disenfranchised communities. Of the 74,000 construction related jobs and 1,500 permanent jobs the project is estimated to create in Maryland, BWRR has set goals for hiring 40 percent of the construction workforce and 25 percent of the permanent employ