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Category: Building Trades

K.C. Carpenters Sticking to the Union

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Carpenters on strike against Turner Construction voted unanimously May 25 to keep being represented by the St. Louis Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council. The union went on strike

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Workers’ Comp System ‘Is Failing Workers’

WASHINGTON—The workers’ compensation system that covers an estimated 129 million people “is failing workers—especially low-wage workers in dangerous industries,” Deborah Berkowitz, head of the National Employment Law Project’s worker health

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Apprentice Training: It Works

New York, NY –  “One of my goals is to get everybody together; a lot of people think the unions are hard to get into,” Ironworkers Local 197 Apprentice Erick

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