Tompkins County Workers’ Center in Ithaca, New York offers a Living Wage Employer Certification for businesses who wish to publically commit to certain criteria regarding the...
Care and Safety
Attending to the safety, security and well-being of all craftspersons is the foundation for building and sustaining a high performance workforce. That means establishing high safety standards and ensuring workers' compensation coverage. It also means that FUTA, SUTA and FICA are paid on behalf of all craftspersons.
Construction site risks can come from many directions. A worker twists his back while unloading a dolly of sheetrock. A new employee misses a briefing on PPE (Personal...
Jim Stevenson, CEO of Bellows Construction, talked recently about his view on the Ethics Matrix, which is a way to explain what we consider to be right versus wrong as a society...
Last year, the Workers Defense Project in collaboration with the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin and with a grant from the...
In light of the video that we shared with you last week where several folks with a video camera walked onto a jobsite and started questioning workers about their immigration...
The blue van pulled up to the curb in front of the trauma center in one of the largest medical centers in the county. The side doors slid open and a man in workers’ clothes...
Most of us in the construction industry will agree that the industry has an image problem, that being “the industry is not the most attractive alternative for job seekers when...
