Construction Labor Report Index-Summary

UBC

U.K.

ULPs

UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS

– Criminal prosecution, DHS issues new enforcement guidelines changing focus more on businesses for hiring, 329
– E-Verify

See EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION

– Employee Verification Amendment Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2679

– Failure to pay for hours worked, insulation firm accord with class of mostly Latino workers approved, all workers may share in damages (C.D. Cal.), 80
– Forced labor trafficking, identity theft, harboring illegal aliens, money laundering, visa fraud, extortion, and racketeering, labor leasing firm owner arrested (W.D. Mo.), 467; participant pleads guilty, 1146
– Harboring and knowingly employing illegal aliens, contractor sentenced, ordered to forfeit profits (N.D. Ala.), 781
– Hire Mich. First, set of bills amending purchasing, contracting and economic development laws to give preference to firms that hire state residents, 124
– Hiring

See EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION

– ICE enforcement

See IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE)

– Immigration

See IMMIGRATION

– Improving Methods to Promote Regular Occurrences of the Verification of Employability Status Act (IMPROVES)

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3676

– Native-born workers, only stucco masons and plasterers and 3 other jobs have majority of immigrant workers, report, 842
– New Employee Verification Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2028

– RICO, masonry contractor has no claim against competitor who won bid by using illegal workers to lower payroll costs (N.D. Ill.), 759
– SAVE Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3308, S 1505

– Skilled labor shortages, construction sector faces if strict immigration controls put into place, professor says, 434
– State and local laws and programs

See specific states

– Tex., lawmakers have authority to enact law sanctioning firms for knowingly hiring, Atty. Gen opinion letter, 61
– ULPs, roofing supply firm must pay liquidated damages to fired workers but no duty to rehire workers not authorized to work in U.S. (9th Cir.), 602; text, 614

UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

– Displaced workers, Solis urges states to let workers attend college without losing benefits, 397
– Extended programs, Solis outlines DOL initiatives to help jobless workers, including COBRA extensions and benefits for part-time workers, 528
– FY2010, Obama proposal would overhaul program, 10
– Legislative and regulatory roundup, 157; 194; 227; 486; 728
– State programs

See specific states

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES

– Canada, Constr. Sector Council report, 2009-2012, 691
– Construction industry, BLS report, Feb., 2009, 48; March, 174; April, 365; May, 496; July, 780; Sept., 1019
– Increased imports, alternative energy development, and infrastructure improvement, could add millions of job, advisers tell Obama, 1139
– Infrastructure, projects will play major role as economy bounces back from recession but other initiatives needed to sustain positive economic development, speakers say, 1084

UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES (ULPs)

– Barring filling vehicles or cashing checks at gas station frequented by union member, post tension firm violated NLRA (D.C. Cir.), 411
– Coercing employers to avoid nonunion subcontractors, steel erection firms get damages for IW local LMRA and NLRA violations (D. Mass.), 889
– Construction-related, 409 cases may have to be reheard if cases decided without 3 NLRB members not valid (D.C. Cir.), 325; NLRB will continue to issue decisions and orders, intends to seek rehearing, 401; (U.S., rev grant), 1151
– Employee Free Choice Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 1409, S 560

– Firing workers for union activity, roofing supply firm must pay liquidated damages to fired workers but no duty to rehire undocumented workers (9th Cir.), 602; text, 614
– Internal grievances, union local disciplining and fining member for reporting co-worker safety error violated NLRA (NLRB), 934
– Investigatory subpoenas, NLRB regional personnel to use e-filing procedures to expedite revocations, memo, 1111
– Job-targeting, government has allowed subsidizing union contractor wages while forcing nonunion firms to comply with prevailing wages, ABC study, 213
– Jurisdictional disputes

See JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES

– Medical insurance, paving contractor unlawfully failed to provide as required by IBT pact (NLRB), 964
– NLRB, pilot ADR program for pending cases made permanent, 144
– No-show job scheme, money laundering and conspiracy, convicted IUEC official failed to show trial counsel ineffective (E.D.N.Y.), 327
– Operating double-breasted, drywall contributions liable to UBC pension fund for using to evade liability (S.D.N.Y.), 891
– Organizing

See ORGANIZING

– Pay system, weatherproofing firm improperly fired workers who expressed concerns (NLRB), 964
– Political activities

See POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

– Preemption

See PREEMPTION

– Recognition of unions, drywall contractor improperly threatened workers with loss of work to get UBC representation despite IUPAT pact (NLRB), 1089
– Retaliation, unilaterally changing conditions, and bad faith bargaining, no abuse of discretion in enjoining concrete firm (NLRB), 214
– Salting

See SALTING

– Secondary boycotts

See SECONDARY BOYCOTTS

– Successors, building material supplier that took over Conn. distribution center unlawfully refused to hire union members (NLRB), 1029
– Truth in Employment Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2808, S 1227

– Trying to force workers to organize and materials maker to recognize, IBT accord with materials maker approved (NLRB), 889
– Union membership, no coercion in asking worker about whether UBC card signed where choice of union relates to health benefits (NLRB), 338
– Work stoppage, oil refinery maintenance firm lawfully fired UBC Local 502 members after return from job action over pay raises (NLRB), 1091

UNION DUES

See DUES, UNION

UNIONS

– Affiliated unions

See specific unions or union groups

– BCTD

See BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT (BCTD)

– Elections, internal affairs, bargaining

See specific unions

– Employee Free Choice Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 1409, S 560

– Financial reporting

See LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE ACT (LMRDA)

– Freedom from Union Violence Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2537

– Individual

See specific unions

– Job-targeting, government has allowed subsidizing union contractor wages while forcing nonunion firms to comply with prevailing wages, ABC study, 213
– Mergers

See MERGERS, UNION

UNITE HERE

– Local 30, San Diego hotel developer ends project, cites interference by union and coalition of construction unions, 973

UNITED KINGDOM (U.K.)

– National infrastructure investment bank, government needs to create to facilitate funding for projects, engineering official says, 1035

UNIVERSITIES

See EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

USACE

See ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS (USACE)

USCIS

See CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS)

UTAH

– Health insurance, bill requiring construction firms to provide on large state projects signed, 93
– Renewable energy development zones, new tax credit for projects takes effect May 12, 264

UTILITIES

– Cal., bill requiring one third of electricity in state to come from renewable sources but governor threatening veto, 942
– Council of Utility Contractors, employers preparing for LIUNA pact talks to replacing expiring pacts, 8; talks halted after employers pushed to change shop steward clause, 229
– Edison Elec. Inst., OSHA determination of hexavalent chromium exposure limits upheld, industry claim to exclude maintenance and repair workers' rejected (3d Cir.), 22; response to court remand on final rule expected, semiannual regulatory agenda, 364
– Electrical power transmission work, OSHA revising PPE standard to bring requirements to same level as for construction, semiannual regulatory agenda, 364
– Entergy Gulf State, workers' compensation law protects premises owner who was also general contractor from tort liability (Tex.), 186
– Flowserve, wrong standard used in finding firm not liable to multiemployer pension funds for misrepresenting financial condition (5th Cir.), 606
– Legislative and regulatory roundup, 904
– Long Island Power Auth. and Con Edison, Plan for offshore wind farm sited off Rockaway Peninsula announced after feasibility study, 307
– Mo. hydroelectric facility reconstruction, IUOE local disciplining and fining member for reporting co-worker safety violation was ULP (NLRB), 934
– N. Cal. Power Auth. officials deadlocked on whether to approve PLA for construction and operation of power plant project in Lodi, 1125
– N.J. Public Utilities Bd.

– – Infrastructure investments by state electric and gas utilities, negotiated agreements approved, 264
– – Prevailing wages, bill extending to construction projects getting financing from agency approved, 449

– San Diego Gas & Elec., retrial for violating asbestos work practice standards under Clean Air Act starts, key evidence of asbestos-containing material inadmissible (S.D. Cal.), 926; criminal charges dismissed, pipe wrap inadmissible due to collection, documentation, and testing errors, 1092
– S.J. Louis Constr., IUOE Local 139 strike over expired contract spread to more job sites, ULP charges filed, 609
– So. Cal. Edison, collaboration with solar firm to build and operate solar power projects announced, 859
– Water Infrastructure Financing Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 1005

– Xcel Energy, utility and coatings contractors and senior officials charged with criminal violations of OSH Act for fatal fire in violation of critical safety procedures (D. Colo.), 882

UTU

See TRANSPORTATION UNION (UTU)