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Skies darken for Michigan unions after Election Day
Date: Nov-23-2012
LANSING – On a statewide level, there were victories for candidates and proposals by organized labor in the Nov. 6 general election. But there weren’t enough wins to change the...
State prevailing wage back in GOP’s crosshairs
Date: Nov-23-2012
LANSING – The Michigan Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 is on the chopping block – again. Its repeal, in whole or in part, may come before the end of the...
Trades wrap up operations at expanded Chelsea Hospital
Date: Nov-23-2012
CHELSEA – The building trades have been moving quickly this month to wrap up a new 136,000 square-foot expansion of Chelsea Community Hospital in time for a Dec. 9 open...
News Briefs
Date: Nov-12-2012
ABC hails Bush election victory The Associated Builders and Contractors – the nationwide nonunion contractor group which opposes all things union – hailed the re-election of President George W. Bush....
Employers now want to join workers in the ballot box
Date: Nov-09-2012
Recent weeks have brought a rash of reports of something that used to be unthinkable in America: employers telling their workers who to vote for. First, Republican billionaire and Westgate...
Forecast: construction to stay on improving course out of recession
Date: Nov-09-2012
Look for modest growth in U.S. construction in 2013. That welcome bit of news comes from the annual forecast by McGraw Hill Construction, which released its 2013 Construction Outlook on...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Nov-09-2012
Building Tradesman was printed on Election Day, Nov. 6, so any articles that pertain to the results of the balloting won’t be published until our next issue on Nov. 23....
State’s construction jobs picture takes modest move toward middling
Date: Nov-09-2012
In Michigan, getting to average construction industry growth among the states has been a modest goal for the last decade or so. That’s starting to happen: it’s only in the...
Trades’ skills on display at massive Chrysler paint shop
Date: Nov-09-2012
STERLING HEIGHTS – We’ve come a long way from Henry Ford’s Model T paint shop, where workers brushed on varnish-liked paint to the exterior surfaces of Ford’s vehicles. After 1913...
CEOs using job threats to sway employees’ votes
Date: Oct-26-2012
In a recent conference call with Mitt Romney and the anti-union National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), Romney urged the employers to tell their employees who to vote for. In These...