Author Archives: Olivia McMurrey

Solar-panel-manufacturing expansion creating union millwright work in Georgia

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Union millwrights are already working on a $2.5 billion expansion announced yesterday of solar-panel manufacturing facilities in northwest Georgia. Those millwrights and others will be needed at the Dalton factory during the next year, and opportunities for SSMRC members to work at a similar factory in Cartersville, Georgia, are likely, said Robert Strickland, business agent for Millwright Local 1263, which covers Georgia and the Carolinas.

Construction-industry tax fraud harms communities, workers, law-abiding contractors, and all taxpayers

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When contractors fail to pay proper employment taxes because they pay workers under the table and misclassify employees: Workers lose pay, benefits and opportunities for safe, decent jobs for their families. Taxpayers and our communities lose billions of dollars in public funds. Contractors who abide by the law and pay taxes lose work to those […]

Halford to speak at Labor Spring in Arkansas

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SSMRC Political Director Rick Halford will be among the speakers at an event aimed at highlighting ways unions and collective action by workers can alleviate the most pressing problems facing northwest Arkansas residents. The Northwest Arkansas Labor Council and the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville Education Association/Local 965 will host the Northwest Arkansas Labor Spring Teach-In…

SSMRC part of UBC Southern District Committee working to ensure our members benefit from historic federal investments in infrastructure, technology, clean-energy projects

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The SSMRC is part of a committee that is working to make sure union members – and particularly our millwrights – gain substantial job opportunities through programs that will funnel billions of dollars into infrastructure, technology, and clean-energy projects during the next decade.

New training center dovetails with North Carolina brewery-to-pet-food-factory conversion, supplying contractors with skilled labor

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The launch of a $450-million project to turn a brewery in North Carolina into a pet-food factory lined up perfectly with the opening of a union training center in that state, providing hands-on learning for newly recruited SSMRC millwrights and a skilled labor force for contractors working at the site.