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The Sierra Club? Really? BT President McGarvey wants better admission policy for labor’s big tent
Date: Aug-23-2013
DETROIT – Historically, there have been disagreements, schisms and some bad breakups among unions and federations in the U.S. labor movement. How the current strained relationship between the Building Trades...
Unemployment agency officials add some clarity to benefits application form
Date: Aug-23-2013
This is reprinted from earlier this year, in an effort to help new jobless workers. LANSING – Many unemployed building trades union workers in Michigan now have some clarity on...
Union value will lead trades’ road back to prosperity, BT chief declares
Date: Aug-23-2013
DETROIT – Doing things the right way and consistently giving the customer what he wants is slowly starting to pay off for building trades unions and their contractors. Long battered...
AFL-CIO seeks strategies to reverse labor movement’s losses
Date: Aug-09-2013
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) – Leaders of the AFL-CIO will ask delegates at its convention, scheduled Sept. 8-11 in Los Angeles, to enact a massive revamp...
Consumers Energy takes steps to build $750M plant
Date: Aug-09-2013
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) on July 26 approved an air permit for a new, $750 million natural gas power plant planned by Consumers Energy in Thetford Twp....
IBEW chief: union health care could ‘change dramatically’if ACA isn’t changed
Date: Aug-09-2013
This is the latest in a series of articles on the pending impact of the Affordable Care Act. The nation’s union leaders aren’t necessarily joining in with the chorus of...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Aug-09-2013
IBEW’s Hellmer joins MBCTC Gary Hellmer, a 36-year member of IBEW Local 58, last month joined the Detroit office of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council as a Business...
Trades, coalition battle new utility deregulation effort
Date: Aug-09-2013
LANSING – Yet more proposed changes to Michigan’s energy policy threaten the construction of the proposed Thetford Plant, and throw into doubt all manner of pollution control work and other...
Trades revamp familiar building for new WMU medical school
Date: Aug-09-2013
KALAMAZOO – A building once associated with the city’s pharmaceutical heritage is being re-purposed for another medical-related endeavor. A seven-story, 330,000-square-foot building formerly owned by Pfizer, Inc. is being substantially...
U.S. construction grinds gears, looks for traction
Date: Aug-09-2013
At halftime of 2013, U.S. construction starts were down $233.8 billion, or 2 percent, compared to the first six months of 2012. The numbers are much better, however, if work...