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Lower pay, higher costs, immigration enforcement involved in California construction companies’ struggle to find workers

Lower pay, higher costs, immigration enforcement...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 09, 2013

Daniel Fregoso, a supervisor at Joseph Holt Plastering Inc. of Corona, makes about $10 an hour less than he ...

Caterpillar’s chief technology officer urges Congress to support manufacturing, highly skilled workers in immigration reform

Caterpillar’s chief technology officer urges...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 09, 2013

Caterpillar's Chief Technology Officer Gwenne Henricks recently testified before the Senate Commerce Committee and urged lawmakers to support manufacturing and ...

Construction, other industries speak out against guest worker deal

Construction, other industries speak out against guest...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Apr 12, 2013

Just when it looked like the final hurdle to immigration reform had been cleared, dozens of business groups, including half ...

Caterpillar CEO calls for more visas for foreign engineers, path to legal status for undocumented immigrants

Caterpillar CEO calls for more visas for foreign...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Apr 05, 2013

Cat CEO Doug Oberhelman During a speech at the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition in Chicago, Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman said his ...

Construction jobs limited to 15k visas per year under new guest worker agreement

Construction jobs limited to 15k visas per year under...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Apr 01, 2013

The path toward a final deal on immigration reform has likely been cleared now that the country's business and labor ...

Why construction unions are wrong in fighting immigration reform

Why construction unions are wrong in fighting...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Mar 26, 2013

Ah politics! Strange bedfellows. Even stranger enemies. One would think the universal brotherhood of union workers would welcome with solidarity the ...

Senate unlikely to adopt ID card for legal worker verification due to high costs

Senate unlikely to adopt ID card for legal worker...

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Mar 13, 2013

Senators working on an immigration bill are not likely to adopt a high-tech ID card for workers because of costs, ...

Opinion: Jeb Bush’s immigration solution “elegantly simple”

Opinion: Jeb Bush’s immigration solution...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Mar 11, 2013

Jeb Bush One might have known that the best idea to come forth on immigration in decades is now being ...

Undocumented workers make up half of Texas’ construction workforce

Undocumented workers make up half of Texas’...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Feb 26, 2013

A report released Thursday alleges that half of the construction workers in Texas are undocumented, aka illegal aliens. Why is nobody ...

Caterpillar CEO: Growth, immigration and tax code reforms key to job creation in U.S.

Caterpillar CEO: Growth, immigration and tax code...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 14, 2013

Cat CEO Doug Olberhelman After receiving a mention during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, Caterpillar's CEO Doug ...

Homebuilder exonerated three years after immigration...

Posted by Tom Jackson on May 28, 2009

In May 2006 federal officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE" to you and me, still the same old "la ...

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