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AFL-CIO building trades unions back Biden’s full infrastructure plan June 7, 2021 9:34 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
The Building Trades Unions are backing the Biden infrastructure plan which includes massive repair of roads and bridges. | video still courtesy of NABTU
WASHINGTON Aware that the pressure must be raised for passage of President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan, the AFL-CIO’s building trades unions, at a 1-day virtual legislative conference, backed the president’s original $2.2 trillion plan.
Labor Department Proposes Delaying a Boost in Minimum Wages for H-1B Workers Until 2023
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Marty Walsh Confirmed As U S Labor Secretary
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The Biden administration has pledged to make the climate crisis a top-tier issue, authorizing a “whole of government” to take on climate change. That would mean the responsibility to legislate environmental action wouldn’t be left up only to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, but would extend to all agencies, including financial regulators.
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Already, over the past few weeks, Biden’s Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will update its guidelines on how climate risks should be disclosed to investors, and launched a task force to focus on climate-related compliance and misconduct. The SEC has also refused to help ExxonMobil block a shareholder vote on a climate-change resolution. (Although the commission did just let the company reject a shareholder proposal to force the operation to disclose what it plans to do with its
Biden blocks Trump rules making it easier to classify workers as independent contractors
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