A week after the Keynote by Brother Sean Mc Garvey speaking at the National Building Trades conference, reality confronts his speech & strategies. Understand that Brother Sean reflects the General President’s vision, or rather their continued misplaced confidence of the wholly failed strategy of Value on Display. Perhaps new General Presidents Rigmaiden, Sellers & Dean… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: ABC
Dominos Not Falling The Building Trades Way –
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Unions and the Internet –
Get out your smart phones please! Google search qualified and/or licensed (enter your trades contractors – such as plumbing, electrical, painting) contractors in your city. So an example would be qualified hvac contractors in Dallas, Texas. Overwhelmingly the results for that search will be as follows – directories (Manta, Dex, Yahoo, etc), paid ad words… Continue Reading
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CURT – Some Interesting Alliances –
American Legislative Exchange Council – ALEC National Right to Work – NRTW US Chamber of Commerce Heritage Foundation Tea Party Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc – ABC All of these groups listed above and others, have to be fed money, big money. This isn’t chump change like the anti-union lawyers and consultants. The above groups,… Continue Reading
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Dear Building Trades Presidents –
This is the continuing research by Labor Rising of approximately 483 connected union individuals and groups. It appears that the major end-users are, among other goals, looking to dramatically reduce labor costs in order to increase their profits. They are also working to strategically capture the skills, for pennies on the dollar, of a percentage… Continue Reading
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Strategic Partnership of the ABC & Tradesman –
This is a follow up to a post that highlighted the challenges that Tradesman and the ABC alliance will bring to the unionized construction markets. The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) signed a staffing agreement with Tradesman International in the spring of 2014. Tradesman has over 100 offices in the United States providing temporary construction… Continue Reading
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Strategic Partnership of the ABC & Tradesman –
The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) have signed a staffing agreement with Tradesman International. Tradesman has over 100 offices in the United States providing temporary construction workers and growing daily for $19.00 – $25.00 per hour. This includes their profit and is the total package. Tradesman was born in the early 90s to supply workers… Continue Reading
Posted in Labor Rising Also tagged Associated Builders and Construction, Building Trades, Chris Hollfelder, Field Organizers, Labor Rising, Organizing, Salting, Temporary Construction Workers, Tradesman Comments closed
