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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/03/26/how-contractors-can-survive-coronavirus-get-paid-not-burned" target="_self">How Contractors Can Survive Coronavirus: Get Paid, Not Burned</a><br />');
document.write('Contractors face a major cash threat with the coronavirus outbreak and threatening recession.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/03/20/how-contractors-are-responding-to-the-covid-19-crisis" target="_self">How contractors are responding to the COVID-19 crisis</a><br />');
document.write('The growing COVID-19 crisis has roiled the U.S. construction industry from coast to coast, with contractors large and small mired in uncertainty and wondering what their next steps should be.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/03/19/construction-industry-exempt-from-final-apprenticeship-rule" target="_self">Construction Industry Exempt From Final Apprenticeship Rule</a><br />');
document.write('Iron Workers General President Eric Dean applauds the decision to exclude the construction industry from the IRAP rule.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/03/18/iron-workers-statement-on-industry-recognized-apprenticeship-programs-final-rule" target="_self">Iron Workers Statement on Industry Recognized Apprenticeship Programs Final Rule</a><br />');
document.write('Iron Workers celebrates the construction industry exclusion from the Department of Labor’s IRAPs final rule.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/03/16/labor-dept.-sides-with-construction-unions-on-apprenticeship-rule" target="_self">Labor Dept. Sides with Construction Unions on Apprenticeship Rule</a><br />');
document.write('Construction labor unions have scored a major regulatory victory as the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s long-awaited final rule on apprenticeships retains the construction industry’s exclusion from new “industry-recognized” training and education programs for those seeking to enter its workforce.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/03/16/congress-gets-a-proposal-to-spend-$400-million-on-creating-more-apprenticeships" target="_self">Congress gets a proposal to spend $400 million on creating more apprenticeships</a><br />');
document.write('A message is being heard more often and more loudly: College isn’t the only route to success.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/03/06/aisc-celebrates-women-in-construction-week-friday-edition" target="_self">AISC CELEBRATES WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION WEEK: FRIDAY EDITION</a><br />');
document.write('Find out how Heather Kurtenbach, a business agent/organizer with Ironworkers Local 86 in Tukwila, Wash., got her start in the industry, what challenges she\'s had to overcome, and what changes she\'d like to see for the industry moving forward.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/03/06/how-women-can-thrive-in-the-skilled-trades" target="_self">How women can thrive in the skilled trades</a><br />');
document.write('A new research project by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research seeks to find out.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/03/05/aisc-celebrates-women-in-construction-week-thursday-edition" target="_self">AISC CELEBRATES WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION WEEK: THURSDAY EDITION</a><br />');
document.write('Find out how Vicki O\'Leary, a general organizer with Ironworkers International, got her start in the industry, what challenges she\'s had to overcome, and what changes she\'d like to see for the industry moving forward.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.impact-net.org/news/2020/02/28/woman-of-steel" target="_self">Woman of steel</a><br />');
document.write('\"I\'m fortunate that when the job ends, I sign into my Ironworkers Local 97 union hall and my union dispatches me out to another job,\" says Danielle Shaw.');
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