by admin | May 9, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Workforce News
Alex Rozier for King5 reports from Tacoma Washington. — Mike Hartman has been a crane operator for the last 20 years, but he’s worked at the Port of Tacoma for 40. Five days a week he works 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., sitting more than a hundred feet in the air...
by admin | May 6, 2016 | Equipment & Construction Videos, Mining News, Workforce News
SILVER BAY, Minn. – More than 400 workers at Cliffs Natural Resources’ Northshore Mining are back on the job – the first major callback of workers in several months on northern Minnesota’s Iron Range. Cliffs Natural Resources announced in...
by admin | May 6, 2016 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
Occupational Health and Safety officials are investigating after an incident on a work site near Joffre, Alberta left one man dead. Blackfalds RCMP said officers were called to the Nova Chemicals PE1 Expansion Project at the Joffre Site. According to RCMP, a male...
by admin | May 4, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Energy News, Mining News, Workforce News
By Hal Quinn, president of the National Mining Association For decades, Alabama has proudly mined the coal that fuels American industry. During World War II, coal helped fire the steel foundries and factories that built America into the “Arsenal of...
by admin | May 3, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News, Workforce News
Caterpillar Inc. is coming to downtown Tucson, bringing hundreds of six-figure jobs to the region, Arizona’s governor and local officials announced this morning. The regional headquarters of the manufacturer of construction and mining equipment will bring more than...
by admin | May 3, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Workforce News
WATERLOO, Iowa — Construction employment increased in 244 out of 358 metro areas, was unchanged in 44 and declined in 70 between March 2015 and March 2016, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released Wednesday by the Associated General Contractors...
