Unions call for new economic stimulus

ACTUTuesday, 20 January 2009Unions have welcomed strong indications from the Prime Minister that the Government is preparing for a second stimulus ... the economic crisis and threat of climate change.“If small-scale construction jobs can begin ... and to jobs had not lessened since the $10.4 billion injection into the economy late last year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:31:00

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Shovels are so 1933

Shovels are so 1933 by Jason Sterlace | January 19, 2009 at 12:11 PM in New Deal obama This is a crucial point. With the fiscal stimulus legislation, Democrats want to create manufacturing and construction ... ." But infrastructure construction jobs are skill positions--the era of digging ditches with shovels is long gone [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:11:41

Microsoft Cuts Construction, Yahoo Cuts Jobs

It looks like Microsoft will be halting construction of new buildings around its Redmond headquarters. According to SeattlePI.com, an internal powerpoint presentation outlines plans. Joseph Tartakoff reports: read more [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:28:58

5 Tasks The World Expects Barack Obama To Do Now….

Barack Obama sworn into Presidential Office 2009 - Inauguration Barack Obama Inauguration Speech Part 1 Barack Obama Inauguration Speech Part ... on public works projects will help to generate jobs in education, health care and construction ... of detainees tarnished America’s reputation. 5) Create More Jobs. 2.6 million  of those living in US [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:45:57

7.2 by digby Oh Man... The unemployment rate jumped to 7.2 percent in December from 6 ... , and 630,000 construction jobs disappeared as home-building slowed. Jobs dried up in the financial sector [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:45:37

Coney Island Rezoning Plan Released, Protests Promised

Photo courtesy Barry Yanowitz. At 1 p.m ... on newly-designated park land. Craine's reports that Bloomberg expects to create 25,000 construction jobs ... -outdoor amusement district to be dubbed the "People’s Playground." Of course, before construction [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:55:36

ECOS & NAST Settle With CalTrans

The following press release from ECOS was released on January 16th, 2009.  Several SOCA and Preservation Roundtable members participated in NAST ... of new construction jobs for our region.  The agreement:   clears the way for Caltrans to start construction this year on new HOV lanes on Highway 50 from Sunrise Boulevard to Watt Avenue; commits [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 04:01:16

Emmert addresses economic problems with ASUW Senate

UW President Mark Emmert began his special address at last night’s ASUW Senate meeting with an air of optimism ... , which would in turn create more jobs,” Emmert explained. Upcoming construction plans include ... faculty members were let go. On the issue of expansion and construction projects, Emmert was optimistic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:51:45

allcountyjobs builds trio of job boards

AllCountyJobs.com, a regional job board network, has launched three new energy-focused job boards that target the wind, solar, ... board software. “Green jobs are the future of our economy,” said Chris Russell, founder and President ... be expected to create approximately 200 short-term construction jobs, 13 long-term operations [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:33:23

Orbita could change mice as we know it

I always like it when someone tries to change the tradition of the computer mouse, ... with, making it easier to do their job. The circular construction of the Orbita will also help recording artists, as most recording software use knobs and dials for their work, so why [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 18:42:02

CONTRACTOR PAID BRIBES TO DO STREET UTILITY LINE WORK FOR CON EDISON…was it Felix Industries?

from the NEW YORK TIMES:January 15, 200911 Con Ed Supervisors Arrested on Kickbacks By KEN BELSONEleven Con Edison supervisors were arrested Wednesday on charges that they demanded more than $1 million in kickbacks from a construction company on several jobs, including work in and around ground zero and in the cleanup that followed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:22:52

Stewart Alexander declares for 2010 gubanatorial race

Stewart Alexander, the 2008 presidential nominee of the Socialist Party, ... to bring automobile manufacturing back to California building electric cars. Must recently, Alexander introduced a plan that would create good paying jobs in the building and construction industry [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 03:34:11

Coney land use review process to start

The Department of City Planning will begin the seven-month Uniform Land Use Review Procedure for the redevelopment of Coney Island tomorrow ... more than 4,500 housing units will be created, resulting in thousands of permanent and construction jobs. TRD [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:50:00

Reaching An Undesirable Crossroads

You know either government has grown too big or the number of manufacturing and construction jobs have shrunk when the number of those working for the government is greater than the number of people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 04:01:52

THE CONTRACTING OUT CRISIS AT THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY…replacing unionized civil servant architects and engineers with non union consultants causes serious problems with public housing project construction and renovation work

from CITY LIMITS: AUDIT: NYCHA CAPITAL PROGRAM IN TROUBLEAn internal report by the inspector general over the Housing Authority says management lapses and cost overruns will severely curtail plans to repair the city’s aging stock of public ... s in-house construction management team that normally oversees jobs. NYCHA was attempting to improve [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:04:00

Unemployment survey: the results

The unemployed are deeply frustrated at the bureaucracy and incompetence of the Government’s Job Centre network, ... /Financial Services: 11% Customer services/call centres: 1% Construction: 8 4% Energy industry ... months, don't bother applying for jobs.” “Wages are coming down, and there are too many eastern [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:15:40

Infrastructure: Let’s Spend Money on It! By Alan Caruba

Infrastructure: Let’s Spend Money on It! By Alan Caruba The Bear on Jan 20 2009 | Filed under: ... , well beyond construction. These are not the “green jobs” that Obama talks of, but real jobs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:30:21

The right way to renovate your kitchen

The right way to renovate your kitchen By Andrew Caxton | January 3, ... spending too much time and money. It gives useful tips on various facets of kitchen remodeling ... to do your job you. Even if you’re very familiar with construction work, employing someone [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 23:39:24

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

Software Programmer (Lahore)

I require a software programmer of visual basic, ms access and excel. job = making of an accounts software of my construction hardware shop. i have almost all the textual data typed in excel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:26:21

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

Inland Empire and Construction Employment

Bloomberg has an article on the Inland Empire: California Finds Public-Works Spending No Unemployment Cure-All ... with the highest levels of construction employment during the housing boom are now suffering ... of the state’s new jobs. Today, unemployment reigns in the sprawling region east of Los Angeles [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:29:06

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

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

Earn A Living in Bathroom Remodeling

For over a dozen years, my career was in the new-home construction business ... -modeling business who happened to need some help on an upcoming Bathroom Remodeling job he was starting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 15:21:21

Remodeling Activity Slows Down Nationwide As Recession Sets In

Home-repairs If you have some money lying around and are looking to do a remodeling job soon, this is the time to step up to the plate. With the slowdown of new construction and people pinching the pennies, remodelers are having ... t they. The remodeling market is tightening due to more home builders taking on remodeling work, creating [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 22:30:01

Remodeling Activity Slowsdown

If you have some money lying around and are looking to do a remodeling job soon, this is the time to step up to the plate. With the slowdown of new construction and people pinching the pennies, remodelers are having ... , don’t they. The remodeling market is tightening due to more home builders taking on remodeling work [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:31:30

New state senator moonlights at law firm

Just two weeks after being sworn in to a four-year term in the Pennsylvania Senate, Lawrence M. Farnese Jr. has landed another job ... commercial litigation, including copyright/trademark infringement, protection of corporate trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty disputes and construction-related litigation.Read the full story [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:01:00

Microsoft Delays Expansion Plans; Job Cuts Next?

When Microsoft (MSFT) reports earnings after the close on Thursday, ... , including a freeze on new building construction on its headquarters campus in Redmond, according ... would provide an obvious forum for discussing and explaining the plan.” MSFT this morning is down [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:36:46

Good organizational skills

by Daniel Massey NYC Central Labor Council head will work to protect jobs, bring federal stimulus to city ... , the union’s top position, in 1996. He has successfully negotiated hundreds of contracts ... -profile construction accidents. “He knows people sometimes start from different points [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:00:21

LEVERAGE: It's Practically a Single Entendre

Always with the conference room scenes. Good Lord, it's dark in there ...The Mile High Job is one of those episodes that seems so simple ... ! It's a --" -- whoops, spoiler, never mind.I tend to construct the villain plan absent the heroes, then drop them [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 09:18:00

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

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 1/14/09

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 1/14/09 Today's LexBlogsphere roundup has a few posts that start to look ahead ... ; Sullivan on their Federal Construction Contracting Blog Holiday Overtime - Somerville attorney Frank ... Another Banner Day at FDA - Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. at his Bio Job Blog [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:32:39

Watching the Inauguration

I have a few computer-based jobs this afternoon, so I’ll pretend to do them while watching the inauguration ... it was impressively not-simplistic, even in the sentence construction - you had to pay attention to fully [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:39:11

WSJ Declares Mathematician Best Job in US!

Not that I spend very much time reading the Wall Street Journal but a colleague pointed out this interesting article which claims that being a ... 198. Taxi Driver4. Biologist 197. Seaman5. Software Engineer 196. EMT6 ... 191. Ironworker11. Economist 190. Construction Worker12. Philosopher [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 02:10:00

Skyrocketing Interest in Careers in Social Entrepreneurship and Start-ups Evidenced by MIT Sloan School “Tech Trek”

We are currently witnessing a shift in the job market away from the more traditional MBA path, ... at MIT’s Sloan School of Management embark on a “Tech Trek,” visiting companies of interest in San ... The students visited us in our San Francisco office, which was under construction at the time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:39:17

Remodeling Tricks For Your Old Bedroom

by Alix Montoya There are literally hundreds of ideas for simple remodeling jobs for an old bedroom available in the market nowadays ... , your bedroom is your refuge during troubling times. Keep in mind that you need to keep it as cozy ... Tags: bedroom, building, construction, contractor, design, fabric, Home & Garden, home improvement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:41:07

Autodesk: where's the money going? | CGenie - Professional CG Textures

Autodesk, the monolith of the CG world has announced 750 jobs cuts and expects to make a fourth quarter loss in 2008 of 5 cents to 12 cents per share ... their opportunities dry up as construction spending declines. And if there's no work for them, then there's no reason to continue to expand or upgrade their arrays of software licences. So the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:09:48

NEW YORK CITY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT - Jack Ahern, the business manager of Operating Engineers local 30

from CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS:Jack Ahern: Organizing his worldNYC Central Labor Council head will work to protect jobs, ... has successfully negotiated hundreds of contracts for the 4,000-member Queens-based local, including ... officials together last year following several high-profile construction accidents.“He knows people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:32:41

A Stimulus Tip

Hugh Hewitt makes a suggestion. Am I hallucinating, or does this actually make sense? ... the construction of the dozens of new nuclear power plants this country needs, as well as the wind turbines ... he be creating thousands and thousands of great jobs, he'd be powering the U.S. up for a second [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:20:00

A nice job

The McMinnville paper the News Register did an article on me, ... barns before it's too late. Carver, who focuses her artistic talent on oil painting, plans to create a local barn series to sell. And she plans to use the proceeds on construction of her own barn.She [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:59:00

Six Figure Jobs with No 4-year Degree

Logging years in school, not to mention shelling out thousands of dollars, can be a long and expensive way to increase your potential salary ... Construction Superintendent/Manager $97,400 $116,000 Radiation Therapist $95,100 $116,000 Police [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:38:23

30,000 jobs to be created this year

30,000 jobs to be created this year Enough to cater to new job-seekers but gains could be offset by layoffs By Sue-Ann Chia, ... . A number of sectors are continuing to hire, he added, citing construction, health care, public [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:15:13

Sector or Industry Total Jobs (thousands) Change from 12 months ago Change 12 Months%

Total private 113,623.0 -2,136.0 -1.845% Total nonfarm 136,167.0 -1,870.0 -1.355% Goods-producing 20,920.0 -1,129.0 -5.120% Private service-providing 92,703.0 -1,007.0 -1.075% Service-providing 115,247.0 -741.0 -0.639% Trade, transportation, and utilities 25,977.0 -716.0 -2.682% Manufacturing 13,168.0 -626.0 -4.538% Construction 6,952 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 13:35:57

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