I’ve Been Working On This Post For Two Months
And after exhaustive research, I can conclusively say that the “Construction Workers”, “Businesswomen” and “Firemen” in Subway’s “Everybody Loves The Famous $5 Footlong” commercial are not, in fact, actual Construction Workers, Businesswomen, or Firemen. The first time I saw [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 20:30:03
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Solis for Labor: SEIU Gets Pay Off, Blago Under Arrest
SEIU Official (but not apparently that SEIU Official) Andy Stern is "thrilled" at the appointment of Cong. Hilda Solis of LA for Sec'y of Labor ... at GangBox, a rank and file website run by a construction worker, SEIU was unable or unwilling to stop ... members. This was part of the battle to defeat construction workers, too. Instead they began to orient [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 22:01:00
What will Obama administration mean for cities?
by Susan Phillips, WHYY News Today’s Inauguration of Barack Obama has Philadelphians hoping for better economic times ... s promised financial aid to cities. Construction worker Jallah Kroma: “Let us keep working. Let the recession start somewhere else. We don’t want it down here.” Kroma is a construction worker helping [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 22:51:04
How To Make Money From Passions
To make money online many people jump right in before they are properly prepared. You know that to be a rocket scientist, a doctor, a brick layer, a construction worker, an office worker, a teacher there are things you should know, things you must learn, before [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 06:00:08
More Join the Military—An Unintended Consequence?
Remember how we were having trouble attracting enough young people to join our armed forces so that we could send enough troops to feed the war in ... had been struck by the number of unemployed construction workers and older potential recruits — people ... -old who stood shivering outside an Army recruitment office in St. Louis, said he was forgoing plans [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 15:04:54
Fitch Foresees "Hard Landing" for China
We have said from time to time that we had expected growth in China to be lower than mainstream forecasts ... to revised statistics released this week. As many as 4 million migrant workers lost their jobs ... or tens of millions of unemployed factory workers to infrastructure construction products that may [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 06:27:59
Bulldozer Dance for Koreatown's Emhurst Hotel
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. It's hard to tell what's happening at the long dormant construction site of KTown's planned ... by bored construction workers. Perhaps the bulldozers are just being stored there? Meanwhile, the web [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 22:01:38
“…IF YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL, TELL THEM YOU HURT YOUR FOOT PLAYING SOCCER”….New York City scab contractors brutally neglect the health and safety of their underpaid non union immigrant workers
from AL JAZEERA:Workers pay price of NYC boom By Kristen Saloomey in New York Activists are concerned that many construction workers in New York do not know their rightsNew Yorkers who live next to construction sites – and there are thousands ... tipped over, crushing a nearby building and killing seven people.Four of them were construction [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 04:11:50
And Again...
Some depressing holiday news:Waves of Israeli aircraft swooped over the Gaza Strip on Saturday, ... and security men, including two senior commanders, but the dead included several construction workers ... target, including an apartment in which the basement is a weapons storehouse. This operation [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 17:54:00
new friday night workout
last night i left work right on time. it had been a long day and i couldn't wait to start my three-day weekend ... -ending remodeling, his team is now moving from the third floor to the fourth floor ... be snoopy construction workers all over the place. we have a lot of plans involving other people [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 16:57:00
More Parliamentary snapshots for 19 Jan 2009
No more GST profiteering Mr Lim Hng Kiang, Minister of Trade and Industry, told Parliament on Monday that in the last eight months, ... in an economic downturn, because many of them take on jobs that Singaporeans may not want to do or are unable to fill, like in construction and marine. ‘Foreign workers also help to keep [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 16:47:35
nevada unions call for stricter crane regulations - contractors are opposed
from the LAS VEGAS SUN: CONSTRUCTION WORKER DEATHS ON THE STRIP: ... is still considering its requests, but they may include laws that require more training and new ... at CityCenter by a large aluminum mold for concrete when it was mistakenly unhooked from a crane. Last month [more...]
Date: 2008-06-30 14:50:49
U.S. Infrastructure Overwhelmed by Influx of Immigrants
On January 13, 2009, at the National Press Club, Washington, DC, ... s Hospitals, Schools, Parks, Water Supply, Bridges, and Basic Infrastructures.” “Immigration policies need ... waste removal, hospitals, mass transit, parks and recreation facilities, ports and navigable waterways [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 12:20:04
Economy & Finance
Economy & Finance 20-Jan-09 Obama takes office with world economy in crisis NEW YORK (Reuters) ... as Jobs Dwindle As the number of jobs across the nation dwindles, more Americans are joining the military, lured by a steady paycheck, benefits and training. Stimulus: Construction Workers Say [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 20:25:32
Unemployed People Join United States Military En Masse
The New York Times covers a recent military enlistment boom, courtesy of the economy: As the number of jobs across the nation dwindles, more Americans are joining the military, lured ... of unemployed construction workers and older potential recruits — people in their 30s and beyond — [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 18:10:49
A ‘tail’ of two cities
Date: 2009-01-03 16:31:16
Still Building: Our Community Colleges: Back in November, voters passed...
Back in November, voters passed Measure J, ... in these critical economic times." Jump on those jobs, construction workers. The bigger projects [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:02:52
Muddy Singapore - an update
Muddy Singapore - an update Monday, 19 January 2009, 3: ... generated by Alex Au’s blog entries about a group of China construction workers employed by Xuyi Building [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 07:50:13
Tomorrow's conventional wisdom debunked yesterday
From yesterday's VDARE.com column (which is where you can find all the documenting links) ... for Hispanics debauched them for everybody. So there was a huge amount of unneeded construction and remodeling, carried out in large part by Hispanics workers, making Hispanics unusually pleased [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 00:44:32
Wren’s Nest Conservation Project — Repairing the Porch
You’ll be happy to know that Blalock Construction Co, our contractor, started exterior and foundation work on the Wren’s Nest around Thanksgiving. Workers have been busy banging on the house ever since. We’ll be spending about $107,000 ... Porch Rail Repair Our carpenter took off the rail and replaced the rotted pieces in-kind too. Many [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 18:32:26
The Atlanta Botanical Garden?
One worker was killed and 17 more were injured this morning when scaffolding alongside the still-under-construction "Canopy Walk" ... elevated walkway that's scheduled to open next spring. Part of Atlanta's Piedmont Park, plans call ... center in addition to the Canopy Walk, which, when finished, will wind through the Storza Woods [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 16:34:11
The Fire This Time: Migrant Workers in Russia and the Quotidian Violence of Poverty
Trapped in a basement garage, seven menburned to death in Moscow. Several more were injured ... of the hardships and violence they would likely face. Paid substandard wages for construction work, they built [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 19:51:00
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