veterans

Why COVID-19 Will Strain the Safety Net for Homeless Vets to the Breaking Point

Save Veteran Construction Training Programs

Leave a Comment / veterans / By max cyril

After coming home from the Army, Union Veteran Council Executive Director Will Attig struggled to find his place. “I came home without a job, a degree or a future,” Attig said. That changed when he found a Registered Apprenticeship Program with the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and became a journeyman pipe fitter with the …

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If Trump Has His Way, You’ll Certainly Miss This Agency You Probably Don’t Even Know Exists

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, women's issues, Working Women / By max cyril

The Trump Administration has released its proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year. Who’s set to lose big if this budget comes to fruition? Women—specifically working women and their families. The only federal agency devoted to women’s economic security—the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau—is on the chopping block. The agency, which currently has a budget of only …

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Construction Unions Help Wounded Veteran Renovate Virginia Home

Leave a Comment / veterans / By max cyril

Last weekend, Washington, D.C.-area construction unions worked with the Wounded Warrior Project torenovate the Virginia home of a veteran wounded while serving in the Iraq War. Marine Cpl. Brandon Burns was wounded by sniper fire in Al Falluja, Iraq, in 2004, and the left side of his body has been paralyzed since. Now the man who …

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Veterans working for government contractor forced to attend anti-union meetings at Fort Lewis

Leave a Comment / unions, veterans / By max cyril

You survive two combat tours and you come home and find a job as a mechanic, refurbishing the Stryker combat vehicles that protected you while you were in a hostile land, with a government contractor that pays a decent wage. The workforce is about 50 percent veteran and 50 percent civilian. Your work place is …

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More Than a Number: Troubling Trends Behind the Dropping Unemployment Rateo

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

So the unemployment rate’s drop last month means we’re heading out of this tunnel, right? If only it were as simple as that. There’s more to the nation’s unemployment situation than December’s decline to 8.5 percent joblessness. The fact is, the economy we live in today has become far too complex to be measured the …

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The Best Way to Support the Troops…

Leave a Comment / unemployment, veterans / By max cyril

Support The Troops. Support The Troops. Support The Troops. This is the newest “wallpaper” in the United States. You see it on bumper stickers, in commercials and hear it in conversations. Based on the number of times you see or hear the phrase, it’s hard to imagine that we could do anything more to show …

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