07/20/2009 - 1:15pm
The House approved a manager's amendment to the American Clean Energy Security Act of 2009 (HR 2454) on June 26 that would give the secretaries of labor and energy the discretion to mandate project labor agreements, and includes broad Davis-Bacon Act language. Democratic leaders lost 44 Democrats in the vote (219-212 vote) on the American Clean Energy and Security Act, but offset some of those defections with eight “yes” votes from Republicans, a number that in the end proved crucial to passage.
09/24/2008 - 1:53pm
The boss says you're an independent contractor. You think you're an employee. What do you do? You can ask the Internal Revenue Service to decide.
08/26/2008 - 3:10pm
In this extended, un-edited interview with KARE 11 News' reporter Rick Kupchella, attorney Brendan Cummins clearly outlines Minnesota's Prevailing Wage law. Cummins' responses to tough questions from Kupchella address several misconceptions about the law and provides some of the reasoning behind the Minnesota statute. It could be a valuable tool for workers should they need to explain the prevailing wage law to public officials and others who may have questions about it.
12/20/2007 - 4:26pm
Three construction workers today commenced a public-interest lawsuit
in Minnesota State Court (Blue Earth County) to enforce a law that
protects the quality and safety of public construction projects by
requiring contractors to pay the prevailing rate of wages and benefits
to employees. The lawsuit against Cole’s Electric,
Inc. of Owatonna, Minn. is the first ever in the state
and one of the first in the nation.
07/22/2007 - 1:26pm
07/22/2007 - 1:25pm
According to the National Labor Relations Act, it is illegal for the
employer to engage in some three dozen activities as they pertain to union
organizing.These activities have to do with spying, asking questions about
union activity or suddenly giving pay increases during an organizing drive.
Click on the link below to get more details.
Read the Microsoft Word document
07/22/2007 - 1:25pm
ST. PAUL — Building Trades unions will ask an administrative law judge
on Feb. 27 to block a new rule proposed by the Department of Labor and
Industry – a rule unions say will reduce apprentice wages, weaken the
apprenticeship system, and undermine construction wages statewide.
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