Sentences with phrase «of construction jobs went»

The Community Benefits Agreement, signed by Levine, former Borough President Adolfo Carrion, and Council members Maria Baez (who is no longer in office), Joel Rivera and Maria Del Carmen Arroyo in April 2006, said the Yankees would give 25 % of stadium construction contracts to Bronx businesses, make sure 25 % of construction jobs went to Bronxites, and award 25 % of post-construction jobs to Bronxites.

Not exact matches

But Eric had fond memories of visiting Orcas Island, so when he was living in Delaware and got a call from a relative to come out for a construction job, he was enticed to go back.

Now that he is back home, soon he will find a job, maybe a not good of a job cos he is a construction worker and did not go to college.

The City of Syracuse took a step toward a law that would mandate construction and service jobs go to city residents.

«A day doesn't go by where we don't see a spectacular headline talking about increasing construction jobs, the tech jobs, the tourism jobs that are now coming back as a result of the governor's commitment to Buffalo,» she said.

Then Cuomo promised that he would make sure construction jobs in his aggressive agenda of public projects all go to unionized workers: «Every job a union job.

«Today we are standing in a magnificent monument of how intelligent the decision was, how it's going to spur the economy, 1,500 jobs, the construction work that was done,» Cuomo said at the Lago opening, referring to the 2013 referendum that approved up to seven non-tribal casinos in the state.

Bridget Boreham from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) said, «The Government has stated that official figures, which go beyond the Jobcentre Plus website, put vacancies closer to the 7,000 mark but that still shows how competitive the race for construction jobs has become.

«A day doesn't go by where we don't see a spectacular headline talking about increasing construction jobs, the tech jobs, the tourism jobs that are now coming back as a result of the governor's commitment to Buffalo,» Hochul said, according to Time Warner Cable News.

Poloncarz wants to ensure that the vast majority of those jobs go to county residents and help women and minorities, especially in the construction trades.

Instead of the assemblies awarding contracts, engaging local contractors, local artisans, carpenters, masons, painters and even those who fetch water for that contract to be done are going to be deprived of their jobs, because government is not going to do construction again; that is the source of my worry.»

All the signs are there for an econoic meltdown - falling retail sales, a slaughter of public sector jobs, a tidal wave of construction industry job loses about to break, it will be Eire Take II by the autumn and the coalition will go the way of Fianna Fail.

Bevirt spent hundreds of hours cleaning up nails and performing other odd jobs at construction sites to earn enough for the costly mountain bikes and computers that would feed his technology habit as the years went by.

They went from beginners and amateurs to a few fairly serious competitive bodybuilders and came from all walks of life including blue collar construction jobs and the coveted corner office.

My job takes a lot of my energy (too much right now I sometimes think) and in the house, there are still construction activities going on.

The superslick finish of the paint jobs on the vending machines draws you in to the illusion that they are real, but go behind the works and you notice that they are intentionally left «unfinished», revealing the falsity of their mdf construction, the truth behind the surface veneer.

Phoenix construction jobs dropped 14.4 percent in 2010, according to the Arizona Department of Commerce, but Arizona moved from eighth to third place nationally in providing solar employment, going from approximately 3,800 to 4,786 jobs, in 2011.

But they can mean workers have a chance to advance and find more jobs, «We're seeing (construction) workers go to higher paying jobs in other states, like Texas and North Dakota and to other industries, like oil and gas,» according to Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce CEO Kelly Brough.

A lot of planning goes behind the designing and construction of a plant, and it is the job of a plant inspector to check whether all statutory requirements regarding safety and efficiency are followed.

«In construction, the project superintendent is making a lot of decisions that mitigate risk and avoid the whole job from going awry.

A construction estimator's cover letter should be composed very carefully; though main responsibilities of a construction estimator are pretty much general in nature, however companies vary in their specific demands that go with job descriptions.

They keep track of industry stock prices and job trends, and publish commentary on where they see the future of the construction industry going.