Construction workers launch campaign to pass highway repair bill

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Construction workers launch campaign to pass highway repair bill
By Kevin Bogardus - 05/16/10 09:42 AM ET


The main union for construction workers is launching a multi-state, multi-million dollar campaign aimed at winning Senate support for a highway bill.

The union also plans to run billboard ads informing motorists that there are 598 structurally deficient bridges in the state. The ads also will ask Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet (D) and Mark Udall (D) for help.

The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) is kicking off its Build America 2010 campaign in Denver across from the city’s Sixth Avenue Bridge, a structurally deficient bridge typical of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, according to the labor group.

Winning support for the bill, which would create jobs for union members to build and repair roads, railways and public transit routes across the country, is the union’s top priority.

The union, which has 500,000 members, is focused on the Senate because it has seen legislation pass in the House but languish in the upper chamber.

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