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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
East Lansing, Steel City
Date: May-20-2011
Michigan State University forecast in its 2010-2011 appropriation request to the state that it has “extensive facility needs,” to the tune of about $116 million over the next five years.”...
L-58 works to steer charging station installs to the IBEW
Date: May-20-2011
WARREN – Thomas Edison was notoriously self-confident, but even he didn’t know back in 1880 when he started his Edison Illuminating Co. how wildly successful it and its successor power...
Michigan GOP ready to move on labor issues
Date: May-20-2011
LANSING – With the revenue side of the state’s budget resolved after having the process occupying much of their time over the last two months, Michigan’s Republican legislators are ready...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: May-20-2011
EPI rips GOP plan to shift jobless money Washington (PAI) – A Republican plan to turn unemployment benefits into a block grant that states could use as they wish could...
UA Local 174 puts industry’s best foot forward – with seven tractor trailers
Date: May-20-2011
COOPERSVILLE – Seven tractor-trailers chock full of materials that represent the gamut of modern pipe trades knowledge were on display May 3-7 in the parking lot of Plumbers, Pipe Fitters...
ABC targets prevailing wage in Bay City
Date: May-06-2011
Prevailing wage is now being attacked on two fronts in Michigan. In addition to the attacks by state lawmakers, a lawsuit was filed on April 8 in Bay County’s 18th...
Anti-labor bills lurking in GOP’s agenda
Date: May-06-2011
LANSING – After the initial flurry of anti-worker, anti-union bills introduced in the Republican-dominated legislature earlier this year, then numerous protest rallies on the Capitol Building’s front steps, follow-up legislative...
Labor, and the left lack effective message to state their vision scholars say
Date: May-06-2011
(By Mark Gruenberg, Press Associates) WASHINGTON (PAI)—The U.S. left, including unions, needs one unifying theme to both rally their own forces and to gain public backing, a panel of scholars...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: May-06-2011
New Hampshire to get RTW law New Hampshire will soon be the newest member of the right-to-work club. The New Hampshire State Senate on April 20 voted 16-8 to approve...
Prevailing wage gets an ‘attaboy’ before Congress
Date: May-06-2011
‘Better paid, more skilled workers are safer, work more efficiently, and deliver a better product’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – The federal Davis-Bacon Act has established a prevailing wage rule for building...