Can Detroit Be Saved?
Dave Bing has just signed on to four years of maybe the most futile and thankless job in America: mayor of Detroit. What in the world was he thinking?
“I wouldn’t have taken this job if this wasn’t doable,” he says. “I finished basketball in 1978, then went into my own business in [...]

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Is This The Future of the IBEW?
Tradesmen International, founded in 1992, is recognized nationally as the construction industry’s premier source for high-caliber, skilled craftsmen with thousands of employees in all trades across America. We hire our employees on a permanent basis with the goal of providing you job stability, a good income and full benefits.
As [...]

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Let’s Get Real About Alternative Energy
(CNN) — We need to introduce simple arithmetic into our discussions of energy.
We need to understand how much energy our chosen lifestyles consume, we need to decide where we want that energy to come from, and we need to get on with building energy systems of sufficient size to match [...]

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Solar Power and Labor Unions
The appointment on Rep. Dina Titus’ calendar last Saturday didn’t appear controversial at first glance.
She was to tour the new 10-megawatt Boulder City Sempra Generation plant — the largest solar power plant in North America to use widely praised thin-film technology. The project also produced the kind of environmentally friendly jobs [...]

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Jobless Claims Jump to 26 Year High
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The number of Americans filing initial claims for unemployment insurance spiked, and those living on unemployment benefits hit a record high, according to a government report released Thursday.
For the week ended Feb. 21, 667,000 Americans filed initial jobless claims, up 36,000 from a revised 631,000 [...]

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Union Membership Rises for Second Straight Year
WASHINGTON — Amid widening unemployment, home foreclosures and credit woes, union membership jumped to 12.4 percent of the work force last year.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the ranks of organized labor rose by 428,000 workers — the biggest annual gain since the government began compiling such data [...]

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Started a new job in Masontown, Pennsylvania today.
A little background information for those of you not associated with the IBEW,  (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers).
I was able to secure this job because I am a proud member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
During these times of economic upheaval and uncertainty, I’m very grateful [...]

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