Older Issues
The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
Trades seek to overturn still warm anti-PLA law
Date: Sep-09-2011
The so-called “Fair and Open Competition in Government Contracting Act” is not fair and adversely affects the ability of contractors signatory to collective bargaining agreements from winning work. That’s one...
Labor Day: Celebrating ‘the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations’
Date: Aug-26-2011
Observed on the first Monday in September , Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. It was created by the labor movement in the late...
Mark your calendar: celebrate Labor Day
Date: Aug-26-2011
Communities around Michigan have embraced the original intent of Labor Day as more than a holiday that marks the end of summer. Peter J. McGuire, one of the men credited...
Michigan’s GOP lawmakers set to hike health care insurance costs
Date: Aug-26-2011
Michigan’s lawmakers are poised to implement a new “assessment” on health care claims covered under single or multi-employer-sponsored medical plans that will represent a major shift in how claims are...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Aug-26-2011
Hearty welcome to IBEW Local 692 With this Labor Day edition, members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 692 in Bay City will once again be receiving The Building Tradesman....
One remedy for labor’s ills: Rebuilding nation’s infrastructure
Date: Aug-26-2011
In the midst of the July heat wave, some Oklahoma City commuters got a nasty surprise as they drove down Interstate 44 one morning: an expansion joint on a 36-year-old...
Trades help clear the air at Consumers Campbell plant
Date: Aug-26-2011
PORT SHELDON – A multi-year process of installing pollution control equipment at the Consumers Energy J.H. Campbell Generating Complex in Ottawa Co. continues to keep hundreds of building trades workers...
Trades seek to overturn still warm anti-PLA law
Date: Aug-26-2011
The so-called “Fair and Open Competition in Government Contracting Act” is not fair and adversely affects the ability of contractors signatory to collective bargaining agreements from winning work. That’s one...
It’s a start: jobs picture brighter for state construction
Date: Aug-12-2011
Could Michigan – our battered and bruised Michigan – actually be one of the leaders in construction employment growth in the U.S.? Apparently that’s what’s going on, and for the...
Michigan Republicans lead the way in cutting jobless money
Date: Aug-12-2011
Gov. Rick Snyder and the Republican-dominated legislature earlier this year have apparently made Michigan a national trendsetter when it comes to whacking worker benefits. On March 28 Snyder signed a...