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Construction employment a bit less bad
Date: Sep-03-2010
There’s less bad news in the most recent construction industry employment figures, but it’s bad news just the same. Construction job gains “were more widespread across the country and job...
Day honors ‘the folks who brought you the weekend’
Date: Sep-03-2010
On Tuesday September 5, 1882, 10,000 workers marched from city hall to Union Square in New York City, holding the first-ever Labor Day parade. Despite the threat of losing their jobs, participants...
Former hulk of a hotel, Durant comes back to life
Date: Sep-03-2010
FLINT – Shuttered since 1973, the former Durant Hotel reopened last month for its new life – as a landmark apartment building. A wedding in the building’s grand ballroom marked...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Sep-03-2010
Construction turning an extended corner The value of new U.S. construction starts in July advanced 7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $411.2 billion, according to an Aug....
Ready, SET, go…Local 80 signs big sheetmetal manufacturer
Date: Sep-03-2010
DETROIT – SET Duct Manufacturing Inc. held a grand opening and an open house Aug. 6 that included Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and a contingent of Sheet Metal Workers union...
Recession helps drive down workplace fatalities
Date: Sep-03-2010
WASHINGTON (PAI) – The recession’s impact, cutting both the employed workforce and the number of hours worked, also pushed on-the-job fatalities down by 17% in 2009. There were 4,340 workers...
‘I would join a union’
Date: Sep-02-2010
More than 70 years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt said, “If I were a worker in a factory, the first thing I would do would be to join a union.” Barack...
Big top is well placed on Marathon coker drums
Date: Aug-20-2010
DETROIT – The topping-out of the 360-foot-tall coker drum tower at the Marathon Petroleum Co. on Aug. 6 wasn’t your typical ceremony with an evergreen tree and an American flag...
Can’t say PLAs increase or decrease costs, study says
Date: Aug-20-2010
The anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors “strongly oppose” project labor agreements in the construction industry, because they “prevent taxpayers from getting the best possible product at the best possible price,”...
Construction industry can’t shake jobless doldrums
Date: Aug-20-2010
U.S. construction employment fell to from 20.1 percent to 17.3 percent between June and July 2010 – but despite that seemingly good news, the number of workers in the industry...