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Modern fire sprinklers now guard Ford’s historic Piquette Ave. plant
Date: Aug-12-2011
DETROIT – The near complete burning of the Olds Motor Works plant in the city in March 1901 had no small effect on Henry Ford when he hired architects Field,...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Aug-12-2011
Mark your calendar: celebrate Labor Day Labor Day events are scheduled around Michigan on Monday, Sept. 5. Make plans to celebrate Labor’s Day in your area. Following are worker-related events...
Trades building a welcome addition to Children’s Hospital
Date: Aug-12-2011
DETROIT – Forty years after it opened, the Detroit Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital of Michigan is undergoing its first major expansion With new construction space at a premium in the...
Major Mason County wind farm gets approved
Date: Jul-29-2011
LUDINGTON –Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest renewable energy provider, received final approval on July 7 from Mason County for the utility’s special land use permit application for its first wind park...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jul-29-2011
Material costs pressure contractors Construction costs again outpaced other producer prices in June but contractors remained unable to recoup the costs through higher bid prices, according to an analysis of...
Snyder snub unions, he signs anti-PLA legislation
Date: Jul-29-2011
LANSING – Gov. Rick Snyder took nearly two weeks to decide whether to sign legislation that bans local communities from implementing project labor agreements – but sign it he did....
Trades put a charge in Dow-Kokam plant
Date: Jul-29-2011
MIDLAND – For as much as the world progressed in the areas of transportation and communications over the 20thCentury, that progress generally didn’t bring about leaps in new battery technology....
Train depot gets abatement work, but its future remains unclear
Date: Jul-29-2011
DETROIT – Since 1988, the once-grand Michigan Central Station has sat unused, often open to urban scavengers, and looming over the Corktown area in southwest Detroit as a hulking symbol...
Union density in construction takes another hit
Date: Jul-29-2011
While the percentage of construction craft workers represented by a union declined modestly between 2008 and 2010, the number of such workers fell substantially, according to the Construction Labor Research...
AFL-CIO unveils its own, construction-oriented, jobs program
Date: Jul-15-2011
CHICAGO (PAI) – With government unable or unwilling to approve legislation to create jobs, the AFL-CIO decided June 29 to take matters into its own hands, with a construction job-creation...