Construction Labor Report Index-Summary

JAILS

JOB CORPS

– Placement in jobs, education, or military, placement decline as area of concern, DOL OIG semiannual report to Congress, 1232

JOB CREATION

– Ariz. and Or., Intel building new and renovated manufacturing plants, 1069
– ARRA, programs subject to prevailing wage requirements, hiring hurt, GAO report, 137; funds put to work on schedule, projects under budget, less fraud and abuse, job creation and GDP growth, Biden, 956
– Building Star Energy Efficiency Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 5476

– Building Star Energy Efficiency Rebate Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 3079

– Clean energy investments, U.S. losses to China and other nations total $11B since Senate dropped comprehensive clean energy bill, business group report, 871
– Community Restoration and Revitalization Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3716, S 1743

– Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 3157

– Democratic policies, jobs created, private sector spurred, 669
– Freight rail, capital investment would add jobs, should be considered green, report, 341
– GM bankruptcy, administration investment to speed environmental cleanup and redevelopment of former plants, 402
– Green jobs

See GREEN JOBS

– Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act

See HIRING INCENTIVES TO RESTORE EMPLOYMENT (HIRE) ACT

– IBEW, locals recovery programs, creations of new job classifications with lesser skills and training, 981
– Illinois

– – Capital construction funding for school expansions and renovations, plan unveiled, 1068; ruling strikes 2009 laws creating revenue generation and spending to support public works, stay sought (Ill. App. Ct.), 1493
– – Chicago, unions may block Wal-Mart plan to build several dozen stores, 552; UFCW and Chicago Labor Federation endorse, zoning approved, 586
– – Interstate 55, interchange reconfiguration project, job creation, 833

– Jobs for Main Street Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2847

– Labor costs, nonfarm payroll, first half 2011, 1325
– Mich., letting municipalities bypass state prevailing wage and labor laws would help determine if they impede job growth, report, 27
– Middle Class Task Force, recommendations on ways to help middle class workers and families, 14
– Middle Class Tax Relief Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 4853

– Minn., AGC, contractors frustrated with lack of work, to lobby for job-creating legislation, annual survey, 1208
– Nuclear Innovation NA, BCTD PLAs, Tex. nuclear plants, start after combined license, major employment boost, 206
– Political climate, Trumka decries, urges increased spending on infrastructure projects, put people to work, boost U.S. competitiveness, 1439
– Preserve Benefits and Jobs Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3936

– Presidential action, use of executive powers urged to expand employment and wages, report, 786
– Recovery, job markets inconsistent, progress best in Northeast, market weak until business confidence shifts strongly, report, 955
– Road map, DOL plan for good jobs for everyone, Solis vision, strategic plan, 990
– Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 4849

– Veteran Employment Transition Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 3398

JOB LOSSES

– Rates

See UNEMPLOYMENT RATES

JOINDER

– Conspiracy to defraud UBC benefit funds, trustee and contractor inclusion, common plan or scheme (S.D.N.Y.), 140; review officer appointed, 457; union business agent guilty plea, 606; Local 608 official guilty plea, 640

JURIES

– OSH Act violation, failure to instruct that violation of OSHA standards could prove negligence improper (Iowa App.), 1302

JURISDICTION

– Choice of law

See CHOICE OF LAW

– Davis-Bacon Act, whether church housing projects fall within Act or state prevailing wage law (C.D. Ill.), 252
– Preemption

See PREEMPTION

– Standing

See STANDING TO SUE

– Subject matter, withdrawal liability, claim to enforce arbitration accord (W.D.N.Y.), 150; pension fund has claim to collect (2d Cir.), 1485
– Union disputes

See UNION JURISDICTION

JURY INSTRUCTIONS

– Mixed motive, disciplinary charges for exercising LMRDA free speech rights, jury award to union official (7th Cir.), 87