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March 2010
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Quinn vows coming construction season will be biggest 'of all time in Illinois'
Posted: 3/31/2010
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn vowed to make the upcoming construction season the biggest "of all time in Illinois" during a touch-down Monday at the Quad-City International Airport in Moline, where he introduced the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor.
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Familiar Faces on New McPier Board - Pressure Builds for Significant Change
Posted: 3/23/2010
While the newly named McPier interim board bears an unmistakable resemblance to the ousted McPier board, a number of observers are willing to give it a chance to prove it can retool the city's convention business and make it more competitive with lower-cost rivals. Organized labor is absent from the table, which sparked some criticism.
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Brady Bashed as Anti-Union
Posted: 3/18/2010
SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Quinn and House Speaker Michael Madigan took turns Wednesday attacking GOP candidate for governor Sen. Bill Brady as an anti-labor politician who would work to abolish the minimum wage.
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Women's Conference to Celebrate 'Breaking New Ground'
Posted: 3/17/2010
The 2010 Sisters in the Brotherhood conference will be held June 17-20 at the International Training Center in Las Vegas.
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Exelon Announces $300M Upgrade Project
Posted: 3/11/2010
Exelon Nuclear's Quad-Cities Generating Station is embarking on a $300 million improvement project expected to energize the local economy with nearly 2,100 temporary construction jobs and a payroll ranging from $14 million to $20 million.
In February our union carpenters prepared for condenser work that they will perform beginning March 25 during Q2R20 refuel outage at the Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station by holding mock-up training at the Carpenters? Training Facility in East Moline, IL. The condenser work will employ 49 union carpenters on specially designed scaffolding.
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