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6,000 tons of steel ready for Chrysler body shop
Date: Aug-03-2012
STERLING HEIGHTS – The Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly Plant’s 6,000- ton steel body shop skeleton is now complete. On July 16, Iron Workers Local 25 members from Bristol Steel finished...
Building trades’ Gleason, Retaskie vie for state rep seats
Date: Aug-03-2012
Building trades union members and their families who live in the 48th District (Genesee County) and 109th District (central Upper Peninsula) are asked to take the time and vote for two fellow...
Corporate campaign cash could destroy collective bargaining, union chief says
Date: Aug-03-2012
(PAI) – The enormous flood of corporate campaign cash, unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court two and a half years ago, could elect so many anti-worker politicians that within a...
Crittenton’s new tower: well planned, well done
Date: Aug-03-2012
ROCHESTER HILLS –The prognosis for Crittenton Hospital Medical Center: 87 new private rooms, better delivery of health care, and happier and healthier patients. Crittenton’s new South Tower currently under construction,...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Aug-03-2012
At the half, U.S. construction rises New U.S. construction starts in June slipped 1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $446.1 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction. However, for...
Building trades’ Gleason, Retaskie vie for state rep seats
Date: Jul-20-2012
Two candidates with strong ties to Michigan’s building trades unions are running for state House of Representative seats in the Tuesday, Aug. 7 primary. Building trades members in their districts...
Classic Dime Building latest to get modern makeover
Date: Jul-20-2012
DETROIT – One by one, the city’s stock of century-old downtown high-rises is getting renovated, refurbished, and ready for the next generation of tenants. Next in line: the 99-year-old Dime...
Here we go again: State Republicans create new law to outlaw PLAs
Date: Jul-20-2012
LANSING – For the second time in the last 12 months, the Republican-led state Legislature has banned state and local governments from entering into construction project labor agreements that involve...
Labor to push ‘economic bill of rights’
Date: Jul-20-2012
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) – Organized labor will launch a big drive on Aug. 11, promoting an “Economic Bill of Rights” and promising to hold individual...
Longtime Local 80 training director Murzen calls it a career
Date: Jul-20-2012
WARREN – What has changed about the sheet metal industry since 1985, the year Steve Murzen took over as Local 80’s Training Director? Well, what hasn’t changed is that duct...