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ORGANIZED LABOR SEEMS TO HAVE RE-WON SOME
ORGANIZED LABOR SEEMS TO HAVE RE-WON SOME INFLUENCE on Capitol Hill. The House has passed proposals to broaden rights of unions in construction. Employers would be prohibited from going around the terms of union contracts by creating new, nonunion subsidiaries to do the same work at lower wages.
COMPROMISE MINIMUM-WAGE LEGISLATION MAY BE ON THE WAY
COMPROMISE MINIMUM-WAGE LEGISLATION MAY BE ON THE WAY in Congress. The Administration opposes an increase in the $3.3 an hour minimum floor, contending that the poor would gain more from education and job training. However, the White House might ease its opposition under some conditions. It wants exemptions for youths lacking skills as well as for small firms. And Congress would have to jettison plans to tie future minimum increases to an average wage for non-supervisory private employees starting in 1990.
THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW POSES TOUGH LABOR PROBLEMS
THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW POSES TOUGH LABOR PROBLEMS for small firms. Confusion about all the requirements of the new law has led many illegals to leave the country and their jobs. Replacing them is proving difficult. Checking documents is imposing more paperwork burdens on some employers; quite a few have found that they need extra full or part-time personnel.
MINNESOTA ALL-MASONRY HOME
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Carpentry work was provided by a local construction company. By the time the project was completed and the last shingle was in place, the All-Masonry Home Demonstration project had involved contributions of time, materials and money from 32 separate companies and more than 100 volunteers.
The All-Masonry Home Demonstration project involved contributions of time, materials and money from 32 separate companies and more than 100 volunteers. Another 37 companies, and some 72 individual volunteers, staffed the exhibit to answer consumer questions and hand out literature. To maximize the project's visibility and build traffic, the Minnesota Masonry Institute ran newspaper advertising in the local daily newspapers, and in special home & garden show promotion tabloids, as well as several local shelter publications. In keeping with its original concept, the advertising centered on the theme "Ever Wonder What Makes An All-Masonry Home Tick?", repeated in a special two-color handout created for show visitors. The theme was repeated and expanded with a pre-show radio campaign on the region's leading station.
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