Growing projects, added industries seeking workers leave construction pool thin

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IN DEMAND: In order to keep up with construction-worker demand, Gilbane Building Co. has raised the wage for new hires and hourly pay for summer interns. Pictured on a job site are Danielle Crafford, general superintendent, and Mitchell Sinnott, pipe fitter.
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
IN DEMAND: In order to keep up with construction-worker demand, Gilbane Building Co. has raised the wage for new hires and hourly pay for summer interns. Pictured on a job site are Danielle Crafford, general superintendent, and Mitchell Sinnott, pipe fitter.
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
Four months after the state’s voting public approved two statewide and eight local bond measures investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Rhode Island educational facilities, among multiple other state and private-sector building plans, the construction sector is scrambling to hire enough workers to meet demand. “It’s not that we are desperate, but it’s going…

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