{"id":1149,"date":"2013-03-06T20:53:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ffcm.org\/wordpress\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2013-03-08T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:22:12","slug":"spring-issue-of-public-construction-watch-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"Spring Issue of Public Construction Watch Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Foundation for Fair Contracting of Massachusetts is pleased to publish the first issue of Public Construction Watch, our new semiannual newsletter.\u00a0 Public Construction Watch replaces two former FFCM\u00a0 publications\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/ffcm.org\/wordpress\/public-construction-watch-archive\/\">The Fair Contractor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ffcm.org\/wordpress\/wage-watch-archive\/\">The Wage Watch<\/a>\u2014both suspended in 2010 in the wake of the Massachusetts construction industry\u2019s hard hitting downturn .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ffcm.org\/wordpress\/current-issue\/\">Our new publication<\/a> provides updates on FFCM activity and contains stories of interest to workers, contractors, unions and awarding authorities. You\u2019ll find information on the latest developments in bidding, prevailing wage compliance and apprenticeship and learn how new legislation and case decisions could impact you. Reports on successful wage complaints and contractors cited by the Attorney General will also be featured.<\/p>\n<p>This first issue is devoted to significant news developments since the downturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foundation for Fair Contracting of Massachusetts is pleased to publish the first issue of Public Construction Watch, our new semiannual newsletter.\u00a0 Public Construction Watch replaces two former FFCM\u00a0 publications\u2014The Fair Contractor and The Wage Watch\u2014both suspended in 2010 in the wake of the Massachusetts construction industry\u2019s hard hitting downturn . Our new publication provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,28],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-news","category-public-construction-watch","tag-newsletter","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ffcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}