The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University today released a report that demonstrates how Project Labor Agreements are helping to create middle-class careers in the U.S. construction industry.  Among the key findings are that 97% of the 185 PLAs examined incorporated "community workforce provisions" which are specifically designed to create pathways to jobs and career training for women, minorities, and military veterans.

The state’s largest union, the 400,000-member Massachusetts AFL-CIO, today elected State Senator Steven A. Tolman president on the opening day of its 54th annual constitutional convention.

A start-up solar energy company, EPG Solar, has outlined plans to build a 12,000-panel solar array on a 30-acre parcel of the 184-acre site.

Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette (10/5/11)

More than ever, unions are under attack. The far right has convinced many that union members are lazy, violent, uneducated, greedy and stooges of the Democratic Party. This attitude is shameful, because unions helped build our nation.

Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette (9/11/11)