Three credible sources offer a welcome follow up on the encouraging 2013 construction and concrete business outlook noted here last month. In investor guidance, the top U.S. aggregate producers—each with varying levels of integrated concrete, cement, asphalt and road building businesses—report slight 2012 sales or earnings improvement over the prior year, plus 2013 market confidence underpinned by MAP-21 highway bill funding, plus gains in residential and nonresidential building.
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Hearing JDM and County Concrete, NLRB reigns in Teamsters’ campaigns
Sources: National Labor Relations Board; CP staff
Pennsylvania and New Jersey ready mixed producer petitions have prompted the NLRB to rebuke Teamsters locals for attempts to restrain or divert commerce in violation of the National Labor Relations Act.
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