Business lobbyists believe lawmakers will ultimately strip from Senate minimum wage legislation any sanctions against companies caught hiring illegal immigrants. Whether they can keep it out of immigration law is another matter.

The six unions comprising the Mechanical Allied Crafts (MAC) reported formal approval of a “jurisdictional warranty” and procedures for resolving jurisdictional disputes and work stoppages arising from disagreements over assignment of work.

A labor agreement between the Laborers’ International Union and Bechtel Construction Co. has allowed crews of union and nonunion laborers to begin working last week on a $1.4 billion power plant in Trimble County, Ky., although the project is being built by Becon Construction, Bechtel Inc.’s Houston-based nonunion subsidiary.

At a critical point in his tenure as head of OSHA, Administrator Edwin G. Foulke Jr. has made his final appointments to his executive management team. With a published rule on cranes and derrick?s now a priority at the agency, a new Directorate of Construction has been called upon to complete the job.

With a standard on personal protective equipment still lingering after years of review at OSHA, the AFL-CIO and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) are demanding that action be taken.

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