Tag: jobs
Local Labor leaders laud passage of infrastructure bill
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
Passage of President Biden’s infrastructure plan will provide more than $1 trillion in funding for traditional infrastructure projects like repaving roads...
Victory! – House passes $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill
Washington – The bipartisan infrastructure bill – the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – was signed by President Biden on Nov. 15.
The bill will...
U.S. Steel holding job fair on Nov. 3
Granite City – U.S. Steel-Granite City Works is hosting a hiring fair from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 3.
For individuals who...
BJC HealthCare plans 16-story tower at former Queeny Tower site
BJC HealthCare is breaking ground this month on a 16-story inpatient hospital tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
The tower, part of a long-term vision to transform...
Boeing to build drones in St. Clair County
Hundreds of jobs in the works
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Mascoutah, IL – MidAmerica St. Louis Airport, just east of Belleville in St. Clair County, is...
Steelworkers hit the road to tout infrastructure bill, critical need for...
Pittsburgh (PAI) — Rolling through the nation from northwest Indiana to Tidewater Virginia and Wilmington, N.C., the Steelworkers’ “We Supply America” bus tour brought...
More than $1 trillion in new spending, thousands of jobs included...
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed by the Senate on a 69-30 vote Aug. 10, and now awaiting further action...
St. Louis County Executive Page committing nearly $60 million in ARPA...
St. Louis County Executive Dr. Sam Page is calling on the County Council to continue with the same priorities his administration used in responding...
‘We have a deal.’ Biden, bipartisan senators reach agreement on massive...
‘Concrete’ projects in, others, not yet
By MARK GRUENBERG
PAI Staff Writer
Washington (PAI) — President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators reached a deal...
Illinois announces another big plan to improve roads and bridges
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Springfield, IL – Illinois will spend $20.7 billion over six years to improve an additional 2,779 miles of roads and 7.9...