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Lafarge brings back 77 employees before expected

Lafarge is recalling 77 of its employees as early as today because of an uptick in demand for cement, the The Alpena News reports. The plant’s employees were laid off in early April when the plant had a full inventory of product and not enough orders to get rid of it, so the plant was […]

May 11, 2010

Lafarge brings back 77 employees before expected

Lafarge is recalling 77 of its employees as early as today because of an uptick in demand for cement, the The Alpena News reports. The plant’s employees were laid off in early April when the plant had a full inventory of product and not enough orders to get rid of it, so the plant was […]

May 10, 2010

The Department of Labor: 45,000 jobs added in the first 3 months of 2010

Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in March, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on April 2. Temporary help services and health care continued to add jobs over the month. Employment in federal government also rose, reflecting the hiring of temporary workers for Census 2010. Employment […]

April 8, 2010

Construction spending down to $846.2 billion, lowest in 7 years

Construction spending in the U.S. fell in February to the lowest level in more than seven years, according to an April 1 Bloomberg report. The report noted that the 1.3 percent decrease to $846.2 billion, the lowest since November 2002, followed a revised 1.4 percent drop in January that was more than twice as large as previously estimated, […]

April 8, 2010

Granite to announce Q1 2010 results on May 3

Granite Construction Inc. announced today that it will release its first quarter 2010 financial results after the close of business on Monday, May 3, 2010. The company will host a conference call on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET. The live conference call may be accessed by calling 877-693-6483 and 706-758-5304 for […]

April 5, 2010

Caltrans awarded $2.7 million in stimulus job training grants

Caltrans today announced that the state has been awarded $2.7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) job training grants for eight California workforce development centers. California received more than 20 percent of the national share of the grants awarded to 19 states and two territories. The grants, from the Federal Highway Administration’s “On […]

March 29, 2010

Jobs Bill = [some] jobs

Infrastructure spending = jobs. Why is this simple equation not fully understood in Washington? Maybe it is understood but not accepted. Sometimes its possible to see Congress as a group of people standing out in the rain arguing about the best way to raise the umbrella. The jobs bill will create jobs, even its critics concede […]

March 29, 2010

Florida concrete producer announces potential layoff

Jacksonville-based Gate Concrete Products Co., a producer of prestressed concrete products for use in bridges and building structures, today announced a potential layoff of between 20-115 workers in May, according to an Aggregate Research (ARI) report. Gate Construction Materials Group President and COO Dean Gwin said employees have been notified of the potential layoff and […]

March 16, 2010

Construction unemployment now at 27.1 percent

The construction unemployment rate jumped to 27.1 percent and construction employment dropped to a 14-year low as another 64,000 construction workers lost jobs in February, according to federal employment figures released today. The economy would have added jobs had it not been for the declines in construction employment for the third time in four months, […]

March 5, 2010

Construction unemployment now at 27.1 percent

The construction unemployment rate jumped to 27.1 percent and construction employment dropped to a 14-year low as another 64,000 construction workers lost jobs in February, according to federal employment figures released today. The economy would have added jobs had it not been for the declines in construction employment for the third time in four months, […]

March 5, 2010

The best bill to ever come out of Congress

Forget everything else the Federal government is doing now. The Natural Gas bill, aka HR 1835 is coming up for a vote. If it passes it will do more to boost the economy, strengthen our balance of trade deficit and put more people to work than any other single initiative. It would also be a boon for the construction […]

March 4, 2010

U.S. DOT furloughs to shut down critical construction projects

The Department of Transportation will furlough nearly 2,000 employees without pay Monday, temporarily shutting down highway reimbursements to states worth hundreds of millions of dollars, national anti-drunk driving efforts, and multi-million dollar construction projects across the country. The action comes as a result of Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning’s decision to block key legislation that would […]

March 1, 2010

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