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Trades put a titanium cap on Oakland U's new tower
Date: May-09-2014
ROCHESTER – Oakland University’s campus has been getting a major makeover, with more than $250 million in construction projects built over the past four years.Among those projects, the most prominent...
Apprenticeship survey shines light on training; What's the matter with kids today?
Date: Apr-25-2014
The nation’s unionized building trades apprenticeship programs have some work to do when it comes to screening prospective apprentices. Getting more potential apprentices is hampered at the high school level,...
Does ending jobless benefits increase employment? The signs point to 'no'
Date: Apr-25-2014
Keep extending jobless benefits, and long-term unemployed people will be less motivated to find work. That’s the conventional conservative wisdom, and one of the primary arguments GOP lawmakers have used...
Federal judge sustains some key union issues with new RTW law
Date: Apr-25-2014
A federal judge earlier this month brought a mixed ruling for supporters and detractors of the state’s right-to-work law. A ruling released April 1 by federal Judge Stephen Murphy was...
IBEW Local 58 celebrates a century of work and service
Date: Apr-25-2014
DETROIT – IBEW Local 58 billed their April 12 gala at Cobo Center as “A Celebration Of 100 Years of Brotherhood.” And with an evening program that included a nicely...
News Briefs
Date: Apr-25-2014
Work zone injuries up; but crashes are down The Michigan Department of Transportation called the new figures “alarming”: the number of serious injuries resulting from work zone crashes in Michigan nearly...
Operators thank trades for support after Chris Casto fatality
Date: Apr-25-2014
By Douglas W. Stockwell Business Manager Operating Engineers Local 324 When one thinks about exactly what it means to be a Union member, the term brotherhood comes to mind. There...
Retaskie wins award for workplace efforts in U.P.
Date: Apr-25-2014
Upper Peninsula Construction Council Executive Director Tony Retaskie was named the grand prize winner of the 2014 W.O. Lawton Business Leadership Award during a conference held March 29 through April...
VA puts veterans to work upgrading Battle Creek hospital
Date: Apr-25-2014
BATTLE CREEK - There's nearly constant ongoing maintenance and renovation work at the sprawling, 200-acre campus of the Veterans Administration Medical Center. In recent months the building trades have turned...
'HB 5184 is a bad bill' Statewide utility deregulation plan seems stalled, for now
Date: Apr-11-2014
LANSING – After a day of public comment held on March 25, House Bill 5184, which would deregulate Michigan’s utility industry, remains bottled up in the House Energy and Technology...