Infrastructure
St. Lawrence Seaway opened June 26, 1959
June 26, 2012Today in labor history: The 189-mile-long St. Lawrence Seaway opened
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Trying to haul highway-mass transit bill out of ditch
June 22, 2012With the House and the Senate trying to hash out their differences on the highway-mass transit bill, Minnesota Democratic Rep. Tim Walz gave them a shove. The House backed his shove on June 20.
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Planned new $1B U.S.-Canada bridge to create thousands of jobs
June 21, 2012A new billion-dollar bridge between Detroit and Windsor., the busiest border crossing from Canada to the U.S., will create 10,000 new jobs on the U.S. side, and it'll be built with U.S. and Canadian steel.
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Obama to building trades: GOP blocking construction jobs
May 1, 2012Obama's campaign for more construction jobs comes against a continuing backdrop of high joblessness in the construction industry: 17.2% in March, more than double the national jobless rate of 8.2%.
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Labor pushes for highway-mass transit bill, GOP blocks
March 23, 2012The bill would approve highway and mass transit construction money for the next two years, creating tens of thousands of jobs. And civil engineers say there are now thousands of structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges.
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