Transportation and Labor Secretaries to Discuss Urgent Need to Invest in America's Roads, Bridges, Rails and Runways to Create Good Jobs
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12**
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will address the 24th Convention of the Laborers' International Union of North America on Monday, September 12. Both are expected to discuss the urgent need to pass legislation, including The American Jobs Act and a robust Highway Bill, which would create hundreds of thousands of jobs for the nation's construction workers.
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America's construction industry - a key engine of the country's economy - continues to suffer. Nearly 1.2 million construction workers cannot find a job and the industry's unemployment rate is 13.5 percent.
WHAT: | U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood address the 24th Convention of the Laborers' International Union of North America | |
WHEN: | Secretary Solis will speak at approximately 9 a.m. on Monday, September 12; Secretary LaHood will speak at approximately 11 a.m. the same day | |
WHERE: | Paris Las Vegas convention center, Las Vegas, Nev. | |
Members of the media interested in attending should contact David Miller, Media Outreach Manager, at (202) 413-1775 or at davidmiller@liuna.org. The convention hall will open to the press immediately before Secretary Solis is scheduled to deliver her remarks.
The half-million members of LIUNA - the Laborers' International Union of North America - are on the forefront of the construction industry, a powerhouse of workers who are proud to build America.
Contact: David Miller, (202) 413-1775 or davidmiller@liuna.org
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Sept. 10, 2011/
SOURCE Laborers' International Union of North America
