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Power from the people Trades build system that turns landfill methane into electricity
Date: Oct-01-2010
MIDLAND – The city is sponsoring construction that will turn brown energy into greenbacks, saving taxpayers thousands of dollars in energy costs. Under construction on the grounds of the city’s...
Skills, safety, value on display at UA Local 85 open house
Date: Oct-01-2010
SAGINAW – Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 85 brought in a parking lot-full of plumbing, heating and green industry demonstration equipment to give visitors an idea of what goes on in...
Union trades sign PLA on massive pipeline project
Date: Oct-01-2010
WASHINGTON (PAI) – Four U.S. construction unions – the Operating Engineers, Teamsters, Laborers and the Plumbers and Pipefitters – signed a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) on Sept. 14 with a...
Helping Humanity: two IBEW Local 275 members receive service award
Date: Sep-17-2010
Coopersville – In June 2008 the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 275 lost a great friend and advocate for working people when Pat Kramer passed due to complications...
Labor Day in Michigan
Date: Sep-17-2010
ONE OF THE MEN credited with the founding of Labor Day in 1894, carpenter Peter McGuire, suggested “setting aside one day in the year to be designated as ‘Labor Day,’...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Sep-17-2010
Trades mourn death of Local 333’s Tim Haggart Condolences are extended to the family and friends of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 333 Business Manager Tim Haggart, who died Sept....
Obama offers $50B infrastructure lifeline to U.S. construction
Date: Sep-17-2010
President Barack Obama on Labor Day sent a strong signal that he’s listening to calls for more government investment in the nation’s crumbling infrastructure – which, as importantly, would put...
Obama: ‘The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label’
Date: Sep-17-2010
President Barack Obama has only occasionally mentioned unions during his term of office, but his speech to Milwaukee unionists on Labor Day was filled with references to labor and working...
Some workers are mad as hell…at the wrong people
Date: Sep-17-2010
Editor’s note: The following was published as an editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sept. 5. We thought it’s worth reprinting, and we’re doing so, with permission. A plutocracy...
Trades mourn loss of two past leaders
Date: Sep-17-2010
Donald McNamara Don McNamara, a Pipe Fitters Local 636 member for more than 60 years who attained the position of Assistant General President of the United Association of Plumbers and...