Construction Labor Report Index-Summary

JAILS

JANITORS

JOB CREATION

– ARRA, direct and indirect creation and savings, stimulus-funded programs, Biden report, 1149
– Economic growth, sound national manufacturing policy, including infrastructure projects, workforce development, and fair trade essential, conference, 1143
– Economic stimulus, efforts to create jobs raise concerns about neglecting safety in rush to get projects started, 535
– Efficiency and renewable technologies, investment could cause net gain in jobs, report, 1118
– Impact, proposals to help economy and increase use of clean energy sources must not eliminate existing jobs or use subsidies just to create jobs, Bond (R-Mo) report says, 295
– Increased imports, alternative energy development, and infrastructure improvement, could add millions of job, advisers tell Obama, 1139
– Infrastructure funding, President says administration will work to find more creative new approaches, would create jobs and improve deterioration, 1139
– Public works, President announces plans to boost stimulus spending to create jobs, includes 300 construction and renovation projects, GOP challenging, 501

JOB LOSSES

– Layoffs

See LAYOFFS

– Rates

See UNEMPLOYMENT RATES

– RIFs

See REDUCTIONS IN FORCE (RIFs)

JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER SURVEY (JOLTS)

– BLS reports, Jan., 2009, 52; first quarter 2009, includes annual gross job gains for first time, 500

JOB REFERRALS

See HIRING; HIRING HALLS

JOLTS

See JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER SURVEY (JOLTS)

JOURNAL

– Ed. Note: A list of upcoming events appears in the Journal section of selected issues.

JUDGES

– Supreme Court

See SUPREME COURT, U.S.

JURIES

– Instructions, OSHA must show supervisor had duty to report or remediate energized wire, no proof of action to avoid truth (7th Cir.), 261

JURISDICTION

– Davis-Bacon Act, laborers may not bring claims for prevailing wages on projects that did not get federal funding, must bring N.Y. law claim (E.D.N.Y.), 258
– Res judicata, Wash. resident may not pursue claim in Wash. for injuries on Idaho site where workers' compensation already paid (Wash. Ct. App.), 966

JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES

– Caissons, LIUNA pact does not require contractor that had pacts with union and UBC to arbitrate dispute (2d Cir.), 928
– Door unloading and transportation, LIUNA local may not enforce finding that assigning work to Carpenters violated pact, grievance does not resolve (E.D.N.Y.), 506
– Exterior insulation and finishing system, BAC Local 1 may perform work on nursing home and retail stores and garage based on CBA, employer preference, past practice, and relative skills (NLRB), 761
– Failure to recognize craft jurisdiction in assigning work on Pa. school projects, U.S. courts may hear LMRA claims for pact breach (E.D. Pa.), 440
– Fireproofing, Chicago Reg'l Council of UBC may do work on Wis. hospital jobsite based on employer preference, practice, and job loss (NLRB), 894
– Green roof installation, no ULP in IBT and IUOE threats to picket if RWAW members used where no CBA with landscaping contractor (NLRB), 1057
– Lighting and traffic signal installation, IBEW may do work on Ohio highway project and not IUOE based on certifications, CBAs, employer preference, and past practice (NLRB), 757
– Mass. fiber optic communication network, IBEW Local 42 workers entitled to install and not LIUNA based on preference and past practice (NLRB), 998
– Owners and contractors, McCarron says BCTD Green Book should be replaced with system to assign work and resolve disputes, 701
– Plastering, OP&CMIA Local 200 enjoined from charging drywall contractor to force assigning plastering work to members instead of UBC (9th Cir.), 119
– Street lighting and traffic signal project, hiring preferences and past practice favor award to by IBEW Locals 47 and 440, determination needed to investigate IBEW threats (NLRB), 216
– Venue, enforcement of arbitration award against UBC for scaffolding work on Wash. lake project properly transferred where both unions' headquarters in D.C. (D.D.C.), 673
– Wall insulation, LIUNA Dist. Council entitled to do work on mechanically stabilized earth walls on Detroit project, not UBC, 217
– Window installation, contractor may not bar LIUNA local from grieving use of UBC workers on N.Y. school renovation (W.D.N.Y.), 675

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (DOJ)

– Antitrust Div., initiative to help agencies insulate procurement, grants, and program funding from collusion and fraud, and prosecution for those who abuse, 363