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Fresh terra cotta faces to adorn Detroit library
Date: Aug-20-2010
DETROIT – One of Detroit’s architectural jewels is getting a facelift – actually, a bunch of facelifts – as well as a number of other mechanical and cosmetic improvements that...
Labor Day already? Here’s what’s happening…
Date: Aug-20-2010
The dog days of August are here, days are getting shorter, and (feel free to cringe) summer is fading fast. But that means that Labor Day is right around the...
Changing of the guard…Gleason retires as MBCTC president…
Date: Aug-06-2010
LANSING – Patrick “Shorty” Gleason started his retirement from the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council on Aug. 1, ending a long career of working with the tools as an...
Congress (finally) extends jobless benefits
Date: Aug-06-2010
WASHINGTON (PAI) – After months of stalling caused by Senate Republican filibustering, Congress finally extended jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. Democratic President Barack Obama signed the bill July 22....
Iron Workers the latest to enjoy Washtenaw Co.’s facilities, hospitality
Date: Aug-06-2010
YPSILANTI – The Iron Workers Training Department and 650 union instructors from around North America descended upon Washtenaw Community College July 19-23, learning the latest lessons in the trade while...
Labor must become ‘all in,’ not spectators, in this industry
Date: Aug-06-2010
For my entire career I have worked for the advancement of union construction. To do so has required a great degree of personal optimism in the face of cynicism, inertia,...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Aug-06-2010
OSHA OKs new crane safety rules The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which moves at glacier-like speed when it comes to improving safety regulations, updated its crane safety regulations...
Proposed financial rules ‘potentially devastating’ to union trades employers
Date: Aug-06-2010
The subject of accounting rules for all businesses that contribute to defined benefit pension plans would draw a yawn from most everyone, but a new set of proposed guidelines for...
Trades putting a charge in battery plant construction
Date: Aug-06-2010
BATTLE CREEK – The building trades are building Toda America’s first U.S. manufacturing facility to produce lithium ion cathode materials for battery cells, another hopeful sign that the state’s economy...
Building trades: Dillon’s the choice for governor
Date: Jul-23-2010
LANSING – Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Twp.) has been endorsed for state governor by the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council. Building trades union members and their families...