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Biden administration announces $1B to 85 airports to upgrade terminals

8th July 2022

The funding comes from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, which included $5 billion overall for terminal projects as part of $20 billion in funding for airport infrastructure.

If you want a construction project finished on time without worker shortages, hire a unionized crew, a new report says

2nd June 2022

“Union contractors are significantly less likely to have delays in completion times due to shortages of workers — and they’ve actually been more likely to add workers in this tight labor market.”

Energy secretary: US offshore wind jobs should be union jobs

2nd June 2022

The U.S. energy secretary and Danish wind developer Orsted say they want American union workers to build offshore wind farms to dot the U.S. coastlines.

Union apprenticeship programs reduce inequalities in the construction industry

2nd June 2022

Petrucci found that women and people of color are significantly more likely to complete their programs in a union apprenticeship compared to a non-union apprenticeship.

What makes federal infrastructure jobs “good-paying”?

19th November 2019

What makes federally funded construction jobs “good” is a concept called prevailing wage — a minimum standard that federal construction contractors have to pay workers.

Meet a Sheet-Metal Apprentice Who Says the Job is His ‘Unknown Calling.’

31st January 2018

Dominion Energy and skilled labor are working hand-in-glove to make this project — and its associated customer, environmental and economic benefits — possible.

Flintridge Center’s apprenticeship program provides path out of poverty

30th January 2018

Graduates of the program have an employment rate of 70% and a reincarceration rate of 10% compared to a reincarceration rate of 47% for Los Angeles County.