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The 1992 Southern California drywall strike was a strike by Mexican and Mexican American drywall hangers, many of whom were undocumented, for fair wages and health insurance from contractors, who stole two billion dollars a years in income taxes, social security, and worker's compensation payments from the workers and collaborated with the local police to repress the organizers.
USG adapted during the Great Recession, which hit the residential and commercial construction markets in mid-2006, resulting in a decreased demand for drywall. [19] USG cut costs by closing some of its operations, including the shuttering of its Empire, Nevada facility in 2011.
Various sized cuts of 1 ⁄ 2 in (13 mm) drywall with tools for maintenance and installation . Drywall (also called plasterboard, dry lining, [1] wallboard, sheet rock, gib board, gypsum board, buster board, turtles board, slap board, custard board, gypsum panel and gyprock) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (), with or without additives, typically extruded between thick sheets of ...
The California Building Standards Code is the building code for California, and Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR). It is maintained by the California Building Standards Commission which is granted the authority to oversee processes related to the California building codes by California Building Standards Law. [ 1 ]
Jon Allan Christensen (born 1960) is an American freelance journalist with a focus of writing about California, from his Venice home in coastal Los Angeles County. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor [1] at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, where he periodically teaches a class, Environmental journalism [citation needed], for undergraduate Environmental Science majors ...
Drywall, also known as plasterboard, is a building material typically consisting of gypsum-based plaster extruded between two thick sheets of paper and kiln-dried.. Drywall was imported by the United States during the construction boom between 2004 and 2007, spurred by a shortage of American-made drywall due to the rebuilding demand of nine hurricanes that hit Florida from 2004 to 2005, and ...
Plaster City, California is a company town with a large gypsum quarry and plant owned by United States Gypsum (USG) [1] in Imperial County, California. It is located 17 miles (27 km) west of El Centro , [ 1 ] at an elevation of 105 feet (32 m), a two-hour drive south of Palm Springs , or a 90 minute drive east from San Diego .
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, first published in 1997, is the best-known work of the Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen.