DONGXIANPO, China — Just outside the southwest border of Beijing, a new coal-fired power and heating plant is rising in Dongxianpo, a rural town in Hebei Province. Cement mixers roll onto the site. Cranes tower above a landscape of metal girders. [ by Edward Wong | November 11, 2015 | NY Times ] When…
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The United Steelworkers (USW) confirmed a unanimous vote by the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to sustain anti-dumping duties on steel plate imports from China that are protecting thousands of American union steelworker jobs at plate mills in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Louisiana. [Reposted from PR Newswire | November 10,…
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week. [ by David Dayen | November 6, 2015 | The Intercept ] In what may be the biggest…
Fresh discontent is surfacing over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that Canada signed in the dying days of Stephen Harper’s government – uneasiness that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals must confront as the job of ratifying the accord falls to them. [ by Steven Chase | October 29, 2015 | The Globe and Mail ] Mayors…
Jim Balsillie warns that provisions tucked into the Trans-Pacific Partnership could cost Canada hundreds of billions of dollars — and eventually make signing it the worst public policy decision in the country’s history. [ by Andy Blatchford | November 8, 2015 | The Canadian Press on CBC News ] After poring over the treaty’s…
On Thursday, November 6th, nearly 500 business leaders, educators, career counselors, and economic and workforce development professionals attended the San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) conference on “Identifying, Tackling, and Closing the Skills Gap.” This conference was a follow up to the one-day conference held in October 2014 where reports analyzing five industry sectors vital to…
