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3 straight hikes in construction spending give hope to ‘fragile’ industry
Date: Jan-14-2011
Construction spending increased by 0.4 percent in November , the third straight rise in the total, the Associated General Contractors of America said Jan. 3 in an analysis of new...
Even Nixon was more progressive about safety than these guys
Date: Jan-14-2011
(By Steve Clark, Laborers Health and Safety Fund of North America) Reminiscent of the battle to establish OSHA itself – which succeeded 40 years ago this month – two recent...
GDBTC rep., proud veteran Cehanowicz dies
Date: Jan-14-2011
Mack Cehanowicz, a retired business agent with the Greater Detroit Building and Construction Trades Council, passed away Dec. 23, 2010 at age 91. He had been diagnosed with the lung...
Human waste-to-energy plant ready to power-up
Date: Jan-14-2011
FLINT – The growing roster of natural ingredients that can be turned into energy in Michigan now includes matter for which there is a virtually inexhaustible supply: human waste.Swedish Biogas...
Labor’s legislative record – Wins on wider issues, union-specific causes come up as losers
Date: Jan-14-2011
(By Mark Gruenberg, PAI Staff Writer) WASHINGTON (PAI) – Unions and their allies entered the Democratic-run 111th Congress in 2009 with high hopes for their legislative agenda. They didn’t work out....
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jan-14-2011
Repeal health care bill GOP? You sure? Last year’s passage of the “Affordable Care Act,” – or the health care reform bill, as it has come to be known –...
Industry employs real-life demonstration of fire sprinklers
Date: Dec-24-2010
DETROIT – The city has a huge problem with fires. The sprinkler fitters and the National Fire Safety Association have a solution. That solution was on display Dec. 1 at...
Insulators add breath of life to asbestos research
Date: Dec-24-2010
DETROIT – Finding a cure or better treatment for asbestos-related diseases is close to the hearts of thousands of construction workers, many of whom themselves may be afflicted or have...
Iron workers top out LG Chem
Date: Dec-24-2010
HOLLAND – Iron Workers helped power up the first phase of construction at the LG Chem Battery Plant, and they finished off the lion’s share of their work on Nov....
Let’s have a jobless summit to ease strained relations with ‘the rest of us’
Date: Dec-24-2010
(By Dave Johnson, OurFuture.org) We had bailouts and bonuses for Wall Street but letdowns and layoffs for Main Street. We had a deficit commission but no jobs commission. We have...