Cleveland Iron Workers Vote Approval Of Pension Cuts
Members of Cleveland based Iron Workers Local 17 voted 2 to 1 to approve pension benefit cuts which will fall hardest on those members...
Governor Rauner Reintroduces Plan To Sell Thompson Center
Republican state legislative leaders Senator Christine Radogno and Representative Jim Durkin are introducing measures reigniting Rauner’s...
Latest Illinois Budget Proposal Includes Huge Tax Increases
Illinois’ budget crisis drags on in Springfield, with the fate of the latest and ever changing leadership proposal including increases in...
Trump DOJ May Drop Support For Obama’s New Overtime Rule
Seeking a 30 day extension for filing its brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals case challenging the Texas federal judge’s...
Is President Trump Putting Construction Trades Back To Work?
Among the early Trump administration executive orders last week were documents reinitiating the approval process for construction of the...
McHenry County Board Dumps Property Tax Freeze Referendum
At its Monthly meeting January 17, the McHenry County Board voted 17 to 7 to adopt an agenda modification effectively eliminating an...
USEPA Opens Water Infrastructure Loan Applications
January 10, 2017 the USEPA began accepting applications for loans under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, and the...
Transportation Secretary Designee Chao Fails To Clarify Trump Infrastructure Plans
Senators, Representatives and construction industry trade association officials all hoped to hear details of the $1 trillion ten year...
Chicago Federal Judge Strikes Down Lincolnshire’s “Right To Work” Ordinance
Enacted with the encouragement of Governor Rauner, the village of Lincolnshire’s December 2015 anti-union “Guarantee of Employee Rights”...
Lack Of Congressional Funding Delays Major Infrastructure Projects
President Trump’s campaign promise of a 10 year, $1 trillion infrastructure construction program could face major hurdles in the halls of...
