Sources: National Labor Relations Board; CP staff
In a 2–1 decision, the NLRB has rejected Corliss Resources’ request for review of a decision allowing an election for Teamsters Local 174 to represent the Sumner, Wash., aggregate and ready mixed producer’s 29 dump truck drivers.
Read MoreSource: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Silver Spring, Md.
NRMCA is accepting through month’s end entries for the 2012 Commitment to Environmental Excellence Awards, recognizing U.S. and Canadian producers’ fixed operations in five 25,000- to 200,000-plus-yd. annual production volume categories.
Read MoreSource: U.S. Concrete Inc., Euless, Texas
Eastern Concrete Materials Inc., the metro New York and New Jersey subsidiary of U.S. Concrete, has entered a lease and marketing agreement with Granite Ready Mix, Scara-Mix Inc. and related companies based on the southwestern side of Staten Island, N.Y.
Read MoreSources: Navistar International Corp., Lisle, Ill.; CP staff
To maintain compliance with 2010 Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for heavy-duty diesel engine emissions—and prepare for EPA and U.S. Department of Transportation greenhouse gas rules in 2014 and 2017—Navistar has scheduled rollout of a new clean engine solution, In-Cylinder Technology Plus (ICT+), for early next year.
Read MoreSource: Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute, Herndon, Va.
The annual ICPI Industry Sales Survey indicates a 2.7 percent increase in total U.S. paver sales and 7 percent increase in Canadian paver sales from 2010 to 2011. The survey reflects an approximately 79/21 split between residential and commercial/industrial market sales. Permeable pavers represented just over 5 percent of 2011 industry shipments and trended the same end use markets as conventional interlocking products.
Read MoreSource: Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute, Herndon, Va.
Included in the language of the new MAP-21 highway funding legislation are the first-ever permeable pavements provisions, which were conceived by ICPI and offered for consideration on Capitol Hill. In doing so, ICPI has created new law, and established that permeable pavements are now a technology for use under the auspices of the U.S. Transportation Department.
Read MoreSource: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill.
After weeks of negotiations, a new surface transportation legislation, which was passed by Congress on June 29, was signed into law by President Barak Obama on July 6. PCA released a statement saying the organization was especially pleased with key provisions in the final bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), related to life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) and pavement research, in addition to provisions to quickly bring the technologies to states.
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