In the next year, $1 billion in airport-terminal-improvement projects will begin at 85 airports across the country. Funding for the projects comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and represents the first year of a five-year program to invest $5 billion in terminals.
For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Labor Department is proposing comprehensive updates to the Davis-Bacon Act. The changes would speed up prevailing wage updates, improve efficiency, and ensure prevailing-wage rates keep up with actual wages.
The Southeastern Carpenters Training Trust Fund hosted a graduation ceremony for eight new journey-level millwrights last month, and swore a new group of members into Local 1263 before hosting an open house of its Savannah Training Center.
Pensions are now secure for millions of union workers workers and retirees who were at risk of losing their benefits, the U.S. Labor Department announced July 6.
Union millwrights from across the South and beyond will be needed to build the largest auto-production complex in Ford Motor Company’s history. Ford announced last year it will build the $5.6 billion project in Stanton, Tennessee.
June Member E-News: Savannah Training Center hosts apprentice graduation; Nashville Training Center construction update; lanyard safety recall; tips to stay safe in the heat; and more
With low pressure and generator issues, the spring outage at Waterford should be finishing up mid-June. As is typical with the power demands at a peak for summer, all nuclear plants are online providing the much-needed electricity. In discussion with our partnering contractors, we will have an average fall outage season. I hesitate to state […]
The Eastern Region has been maintaining a few projects that are providing steady hours and working opportunities but may ask for more at any time. There is an open need for millwrights with an MSHA card in the Tampa Bay area. There is an outage at the end of August in Jacksonville at plant Kennedy […]
Spring outage work was very busy for our members across the Central Region. Work is starting to slow down a bit for the summer, so now is a great time to take advantage of training and enhancing your skill sets. Bottoms up organizing is a great way of recruiting within our organization, and if you know […]
The Western Region continues to have work beginning throughout the 4 state region with gas and steam turbine work in both Texas and Louisiana, Automotive work in the Austin and San Antonio areas, and Hydro work in Oklahoma and Arkansas. We encourage our members to take this slower time of year to keep your training […]
Q2 Industry Partner E-News: Upcoming opportunities; Training centers open; Recruiting efforts; Government and economic news; and more
The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee has released a study showing that, compared to their non-union peers, union members earn 10.2% higher wages and are 18.3% more likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance.
Employers and employees are invited to U.S. Labor Department online forums about worker misclassification. Employees who are misclassified as independent contractors are deprived of employer-provided health, retirement, and other benefits as well as Social-Security and Family-and-Medical-Leave-Act benefits.
The Western Region of the SSMRC is looking at expanded growth in both the power-generation and conveyor/distribution markets over and above the 2022 spring season growth. Multiple new construction and maintenance outages have been added to our work scope, including several airport expansions.
The first half of 2022 has been very busy. This is a great time to be a millwright as well as a contractor partner of the SSMRC.
The busy spring nuclear outage season presented a few challenges. With 12 turbine outages from February through April and a total call for just over 725 millwrights, we knew it would be a logistics hurdle.
Through our partnerships with contractors, we identify upcoming projects and inform our business partners of bid opportunities for those projects. I’d like to share with you here some information about projects on the horizon.
Work has begun to slow down as we get into the summer months, but there will be work picking up at Tesla in Austin and a few power generation projects are actually scheduled out of season. Airport work should be picking up in Houston and Dallas and LNG work is ongoing in Louisiana. Oklahoma should be […]
Good day brothers and sisters of the SSMRC Eastern District. I would like to provide you with a work update for the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. The first item is that work seems to be slowing and we are getting more people on the out-of-work list. There are a few projects that are popping up […]
Spring outage work was very busy for our members across the Central Region. Work is starting to slow down a bit for the summer, so now is a great time to take advantage of training and enhancing your skillsets. Bottoms up organizing is a great way of recruiting within our organization, and if you know of […]