The real construction crisis isn’t a labor shortage – it’s a wage shortage | Opinion
Relying on temporary foreign labor through H-2B visas creates a revolving door that undermines local economies and workforce ...
A robot assistant could help construction workers on high-risk jobs
A prototype robot has been tested on a building site in Italy, working alongside construction workers, drilling, sanding, painting and helping carry heavy materials. Syakir Jasnee reports. US says ...
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Trump Administration Entices Millions of Federal Workers to Resign
Green Reporting from Washington The Trump administration on Tuesday offered roughly two million federal workers the option to resign but be paid through the end of September, in an effort to ...
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Weymouth construction collapse kills worker, injures 4 as wind gusts batter Massachusetts
Fire officials say they got a call for the collapse of a single-family home under construction just before noon on Vine Street in Weymouth. When they arrived, there was still one worker trapped ...
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Photos: Construction of Albany's iconic Egg
The construction of The Egg began in 1966 and was completed 12 years later in 1978. The Egg was designed by Wallace Harrison, according to the Center for the Performing Arts. The Egg houses two ...
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Worker rescued after being trapped in elevator at downtown building where scaffolding collapsed
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A construction worker was rescued after being trapped in an elevator at a construction site in downtown Houston where a scaffolding collapsed, according to officials.
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Construction worker killed by work vehicle in Whatcom County, troopers say
WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. — Troopers with Washington State Patrol say a construction worker was killed Tuesday morning by a vehicle working on the same project. It happened in Whatcom County on East ...
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Construction worker 'lucky to be alive' after falling from sixth floor of Irish hospital
A construction worker fell from the sixth floor of the new 96-bed block for University Hospital Limerick (UHL). It is understood the man, aged in his 50s, was working on scaffolding when the ...
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Worker, 31, dies after falling into 3m piling pit at Raffles Place site
A 31-year-old Bangladeshi worker died at a Raffles Place construction site on Jan. 25 after the ground gave way, causing him to fall into a 3m deep piling pit. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM ...
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Update: Whatcom County worker dies after being struck by crew vehicle at job site
He was promoted to senior maintenance worker in November. In Tuesday’s incident, the truck was backing down the right shoulder of eastbound Smith Road in the construction zone as Gipson was ...
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In Pictures: Sporting photos of the week
A selection of some of the most striking sports photographs taken around the world over the past seven days: Florian Schieder of Italy prepares at the start for the first Men's Downhill training ...
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1 dead, 4 hurt in Weymouth construction collapse
(WHDH) - Four people were hurt and one died after a house under construction collapsed in ... Murphy says the four other workers were hurt, but were able to escape on their own and were taken ...