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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | CONSTRUCTION LIEN BLOG DECEMBER 7, 2011  How To File A California Mechanics Lien So, if you are furnishing services, materials, equipment or labor on a “work of improvement,” and you’re one of these listed types of parties…you can file a mechanic’s lien in California. This post, originally published as a Google Knol (which is being discontinued, yawn), is now repurposed for this blog. There is so little room for error. Cleaning services. | CONSTRUCTION LIEN BLOG DECEMBER 7, 2011  How To File A California Mechanics Lien So, if you are furnishing services, materials, equipment or labor on a “work of improvement,” and you’re one of these listed types of parties…you can file a mechanic’s lien in California. This post, originally published as a Google Knol (which is being discontinued, yawn), is now repurposed for this blog. There is so little room for error. Cleaning services. | | | | | |
| MIKE ROWE WORKS AUGUST 17, 2011 The Unqualified Workforce Is Prolonging Our Economic Woes He needs hundreds of technicians, welders, and machinists. The most recent population survey by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics offered this striking contrast: Since the recovery began producing jobs in January 2010, the United States has suffered a net loss of 500,000 jobs among people with high school diplomas or less, but a net gain of 1.2 The U.S. is not only suffering from a skills gap it is suffering from a skills mismatch. Desperately Seeking Skills. How an unqualified workforce is prolonging America’s economic misery. percent. the U.S. s, either. | GREEN GODDESS JULY 28, 2011  Ikea Me This voted 221-69 to have the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers represent them in collective bargaining, union and plant officials said. The National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw the vote, has not officially released the results. Thrilled to hear about this recent turn of events in Ikea's only US Factory. At Ikea’s Only U.S. Unions Ikea | GREEN GODDESS APRIL 11, 2011  And Nobody Knows - Ikea In a time when jobs are scarce, wages commensurate with those jobs worse, a massive discrimination suit at another behemoth Wal-Mart regarding sexual discrimination, a move to remove child labor laws,unions, minimum wages, OSHA regs and so forth, I sometimes feel I am on a soap box trying to remind people that Green is sometimes just a color. Ikea's U.S. The International Assn. workers. | GREEN GODDESS JUNE 12, 2009 Maybe they mean Green as in "Alien" That operation was a unionized facility providing good, middle-class wages to the Machinist Union members employed there. But at the same time, they adamantly rejected requests by the Machinist Union to remain neutral in any efforts to unionize the Oregon work force. As labor leaders representing union members in both states, we find this entire story reprehensible. Business, government and labor must work together to ensure that this new green economy works to provide family-wage jobs with real protections and a strong voice in the workplace. | | | | | | | |
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