Tag: Arizona
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Arizona SkillsUSA competition showcases trade options
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The construction industry faces a stark shortage of workers, but programs and people across the country are working at the local level to solve the problem. This series highlights those efforts helping to recruit the next generation…
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Arizona construction leader: ‘Say yes often’
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. This article is one in a series of conversations with women leaders in the construction industry. Click here for past discussions. When Kim Davids was in eighth grade, her geometry teacher assigned a project that involved recreating her home…
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Kore Power nixes plans for $1.25B battery plant in Arizona
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Kore Power has shelved its plans to build a $1.25 billion battery plant in Buckeye, Arizona, after its slated production site was quietly listed for sale in recent weeks. Kore did not immediately respond to…
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Arizona Congressman Sponsors Bill To Abolish OSHA
On January 3, 2025, Andy Biggs (R – AR – 5) introduced a new, if exceedingly brief, piece of legislation that would result in the abolition of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Its formation was the result of the Occupation Safety and Health Act, signed into being by former Republican President Richard Nixon on…
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Arizona drywall firms ordered to pay over $7.4M in back wages, damages
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Department of Labor has obtained a judgment ordering two Arizona drywall and painting companies to pay $7.45 million in back wages and damages after the employers willfully denied overtime pay to over 1,400 employees, according to…
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A Girls Weekend In Sedona, Arizona
My best friend and I live in different parts of the country (we’ve been best friends for 24 years, and have only spent about 1/3 of them in the same city), so we love taking trips together. Let me tell you, the joy of packing light (only for yourself! not the whole fam!) and having…