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Lower trend welcome for Michigan’s construction fatality rate
Date: Feb-11-2011
LANSING – There aren’t too many positive employment trends in Michigan’s construction industry. But there is some very good news in one area. Michigan’s fatality rate in the construction industry...
MSU cyclotron job a forerunner of massive FRIB construction
Date: Feb-11-2011
EAST LANSING – With all types of delayed infrastructure work needing to be addressed, and with a growing list of new construction projects on its to-do list, Michigan State University...
News Briefs
Date: Feb-11-2011
New life for Wolverine plant Construction of a 600 megawatt coal-fired power plant by Wolverine Power Cooperative still may not happen – but last week a judge kept hope alive....
Slowly, Michigan sees rise in construction employment
Date: Feb-11-2011
Michigan is slowly, agonizingly, seeing an increase in month-to-month construction employment. In the latest employment numbers released Jan. 25 by the Associated General Contractors, Michigan’s month-to-month (November to December )...
Another drop for union membership
Date: Jan-28-2011
(By Mark Gruenberg, PAI Staff Writer) WASHINGTON (PAI) – The nation’s unions had 14.7 million members last year, or represented 11.9% of all U.S. workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Committee name changed to curb ‘culture of union favoritism.’ And this culture is...where?
Date: Jan-28-2011
(By Mark Ayers, President, AFL-CIO Building Trades Department) News item: The “House Education and Labor Committee,” given that name in 2006 by the incoming Democratic majority, has been given a...
Couzens Hall’s makeover: massive, and mostly unseen
Date: Jan-28-2011
ANN ARBOR – Couzens Hall’s nice brick exterior will look about the same when a major ongoing renovation project is complete in June. Likewise, there won’t be that many physical...
Maybe Michigan has bottomed out?
Date: Jan-28-2011
Michigan’s battered and bruised construction industry may not be ready for a roaring comeback, but will this be the year that shows we’re finally on the road to recovery? The...
Michigan Republicans waste no time introducing right-to-work
Date: Jan-28-2011
The Republican-dominated Michigan Legislature couldn’t wait to get started bashing the state’s unions. On Jan. 13, their first opportunity to introduce legislation this year, House Republicans sponsored resolutions that would...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jan-28-2011
Better building year ahead, AGC says U.S. construction employment is expected to “turn positive” this year in terms of job growth, said Ken Simonson, chief economist of the Associated General...