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Report Shows Growing Need for Infrastructure Spending
A new report has been released highlighting the crumbling infrastructure in the United States and the immediate need for massive infrastructure spending. While the report details that things are...
AFL-CIO Highlights the Need for Infrastructure Investment
This week is Infrastructure Week, an annual event where an increasingly powerful coalition led by local, state and federal leaders, as well as both businesses and labor unions,...
IBEW Testifies on the State of the Nation's Electrical Grid
Construction and Maintenance Department Director Jim Ross testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy Feb. 27 about how the federal government can improve the state of the nation’s...
Senate Dems Propose Creating 15 Million Infrastructure Jobs
After Trump released his much-maligned infrastructure plan, that failed to provide the needed resources to meet the United States infrastructure needs, Senate Democrats have now released their vision...
Trump's Budget Fails to Deliver Infrastructure Funding
After months of waiting, Trump has finally released his first budget. There has been much speculation about what would be included in it, including a proposal to eliminate federal workers pensions....
The $1 Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Con
After Trump drained the swamp, he appointed George W. Bush’s Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to be his Transportation Secretary. He once again broke a campaign promise. Trump said that he would not...
Our Infrastructure Wish List
One of Trump’s biggest promises on the campaign trail was that he was going to use his experience as a builder to fix our nations infrastructure problems. In the middle of January, he met...
Don't Trust Trump's Infrastructure Plan
Trump says he has a plan to rebuild America's crumbling infrastructure. There's no question we need a major infrastructure upgrade. Decades of underfunding by elected officials has led to...
"She was a terrible Labor Secretary"
In Trump’s ongoing effort to “Drain the Swamp” he has chosen Elaine Chao to be his Transportation Secretary, overseeing the promised $1 Trillion infrastructure plan that Trump...
Could this happen?
With a July 31st deadline for infrastructure spending to expire, the Laborers International Union of North America is urging Congress to pass a long term extension for the funding. Laborers...