U.S. Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) have introduced the Indoor Air Quality and Healthy Schools Act, endorsed by school and sheet metal groups alike.
The campaign to organize PreCast Florida grew out of the local's existing relationship with Southern State Duct Masters, a unionized sheet metal contractor that has thrived since signing with Local 435 in 2022.
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a memo mandating prevailing wages for technicians conducting testing, adjusting and balancing (TAB) work on Davis-Bacon Act projects.
Historically having a high tax rate on manufacturing relative to the rest of the world, the 2017 tax reforms temporarily stimulated the U.S. manufacturing sector.