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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
ABC training remains consistent: They've been a constant failure
Date: Apr-05-2019
LANSING - The Associated Builders and Contractors-Michigan - the anti-union construction group which backed last year's effort to repeal the state's prevailing wage law - is certainly better at lobbying...
EMU's Sill Hall ready for a reno
Date: Apr-05-2019
YPSILANTI - The space inside Sill Hall on the campus of Eastern Michigan University is currently a shelled-out, blank slate as it awaits a modern makeover. The building has been...
News Briefs
Date: Apr-05-2019
Michigan still vexed by low wage levels Michigan's jobless rate (4.6 percent) is nearly at its lowest since 2000, but the percentage of households that "could not afford basic needs...
Old Man Winter puts kibosh on U.S. construction
Date: Apr-05-2019
The brutal winter weather brought a beat-down to construction employment in Michigan, and it wasn't kind to much of the rest of the nation, either. In a single month, from...
Proposed overtime pay rule has Chamber's fingerprints all over it
Date: Apr-05-2019
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) – President Trump's Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s new overtime pay rule follows – to the letter – the recommendations of the U.S....
'We are going to build the tunnel' Maybe not Whitmer, Nessel slam brakes on Line 5 tunnel
Date: Apr-05-2019
LANSING - A 4.5-mile long utility tunnel under the Mackinac Straits to encapsulate the Line 5 petroleum pipeline will be constructed, said an Enbridge Energy Co. spokesman last month. No...
Construction returns to the FRIB at Michigan State
Date: Mar-22-2019
EAST LANSING - The building trades, Barton Malow and Michigan State University aren't quite finished with the FRIB. Construction of the major portion of MSU's $730 million Facility for Rare...
State AFL-CIO's Bieber: now let's create a labor majority in Lansing
Date: Mar-22-2019
LANSING - The election of Gretchen Whitmer to Michigan governor and gains of five Democratic seats in both the state House and Senate have brushed aside the anti-union fervor that...
Upper Peninsula projects suffer from an invasive species of protestors
Date: Mar-22-2019
LANSING - The Upper Peninsula, already enjoying a fairly strong construction market, has even greater opportunities on its doorstep. That is, if groups of people who don't live there would...
Whitmer promotes road plan, offers trades 'a voice at the table'
Date: Mar-22-2019
LANSING - The Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, back in August 2017 was the first group in organized labor to endorse the candidacy of Gretchen Whitmer for the state's...