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Oct 17, 2013 | Member News | 0 |
A Seattle contractor who obtained more than $1 million in government contracts now faces criminal charges, accused of scamming workers out of pay as part of a scheme to underbid competitors.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer has the full story on the investigation that saw a Seattle police officer trained as a drywall installer, who then went to work for the contractor.
Oct 4, 2013 | Member News | 0 |
The Affiliated Construction Trades of Ohio (“ACT Ohio”) is a 501(c)(5) organization created by the Ohio State Building & Construction Trades Council to facilitate economic and industrial development and incorporate industry best practices for Ohio’s public and private capital improvement projects. ACT Ohio announced Friday that its Executive Board formally endorsed a number of candidates for public office.
Read MoreSep 16, 2013 | Member News | 0 |
A budget cut is likely for the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a major detriment to the safety of workers and construction costs.
The House has proposed that the 2014 budgets for OSHA and other DOL agencies be cut 18.6 percent from their sequestered 2013 budgets, down from $150 billion to a $122 billion department-wide budget. The Senate, meanwhile, has proposed a 6 percent boost for OSHA’s budget, up to $567 million. With the House and Senate unable to agree on a federal budget for fiscal year 2014, which starts on October 1, the Center for Effective Government calculates OSHA’s budget could potentially drop to its lowest figure since 1993 when adjusted for inflation.
Read MoreSep 9, 2013 | Member News | 0 |
In a proclamation dated August 30 declaring September 2 as Labor Day, President Obama praised the spirit and productivity of American workers and recognized the role unions have played in workers’ well-being.
Read MoreSep 3, 2013 | Construction News | 0 |
July construction spending was estimated at a seasonally adjusted rate of $900.8 billion, 0.6 percent above last month’s estimate of $895.7 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce....
Read MoreAug 29, 2013 | Member News | 0 |
With Labor Day only days away, it’s fitting that some news outlets have devoted time to discussing labor unions and their presence in the current economy. The following is an article posted on The Hill’s Congress Blog entitled...
Read MoreAug 14, 2013 | Member News | 0 |
More than six months after Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board came to national attention, the Senate voted to confirm five NLRB nominees, creating a fully confirmed board for the first time in a decade.
The NLRB has continued to issue decisions while awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court review of President Obama’s controversial board appointments of January 2012; those appointments were ruled invalid by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit because the Senate was not technically in recess at that time.
Read MoreAug 12, 2013 | Member News | 0 |
The Affiliated Construction Trades of Ohio (“ACT Ohio”) announced that the Dayton Building and Construction Trades Council and Dayton Real Estate Ventures (“Penn Gaming”) have reached a Memorandum of Agreement (“MOA”) for the remaining construction of the Dayton Racino project.
Read MoreAug 8, 2013 | Member News | 0 |
Members of IBEW Local 673 contacted ACT Ohio seeking some research and assistance related to how the Lake County Metropolitan Housing Authority bid a major apartment renovation project.
After a review of meeting minutes and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rules, ACT Ohio legal counsel Rob Dorans uncovered some possible problems including bidding the project portions separately which resulted in an increase of $200,000 to the project and a violation of HUD rules.
Read MoreAug 6, 2013 | Member News | 0 |
Construction spending dropped during June 2013 – estimated at a seasonally adjusted rate of $883.9 billion, 0.6 percent below last month’s estimate of $889.4 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau of the...
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