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NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jun-11-2010
Union leaders hail re-regulation bill WASHINGTON (PAI) – Union leaders and allies hailed the Senate’s 59-39 party-line vote on May 20 that approved a comprehensive financial re-regulation bill. They said...
New study: Michigan businesses, roads, are on the road to ruin
Date: Jun-11-2010
LANSING –Michigan will lose 12,000 jobs and the chance to revive its economy if state lawmakers fail to pump new investment into the state’s deteriorating transportation system, says a study...
State finally pulls plug on Wolverine plant
Date: Jun-11-2010
LANSING –The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment on May 21 made it official: they denied Wolverine Power’s permit for a proposed $1 billion, 600-megawatt clean-coal power plant in...
State House pushes new bridge forward
Date: Jun-11-2010
LANSING – The Michigan House on May 26 narrowly adopted legislation that would allow construction of a second bridge over the Detroit River. The House voted 56-51 to approve House...
Trades building modern science complex at Eastern Michigan
Date: Jun-11-2010
YPSILANTI – The largest single construction project in the history of Eastern Michigan University will transform both the look of the Jefferson Science Complex on the exterior – as well...
As unions become ‘increasingly irrelevant,’ a show of wrath may be path to resurgence
Date: May-28-2010
Editor’s note: With five months already passed during this election year, there is a very limited window for organized labor to seek Congressional passage of its number one legislative priority,...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: May-28-2010
Downward trend for wage hikes Wage and benefit increases in the U.S. construction industry are headed south. The Construction Labor Report said that from Jan. 1 through May 3, 2010,...
Revenue drops hit Michigan contractors, and others, ENR says
Date: May-28-2010
Last year at this time, the full effect of the recession hadn’t quite flattened the entire U.S. construction industry. But the economic steamroller was certainly full speed ahead. “In 2009,”...
Small uptick for construction hiring
Date: May-28-2010
Construction firms added 14,000 new jobs in April, the second consecutive month of employment gains for the industry, according to an analysis of federal figures released May 7 by the...
Stimulus is stimulating, but there isn’t much else going on
Date: May-28-2010
U.S. construction industry activity dropped 9 percent from March to April, and through the first four months of the year, was essentially flat compared to the same period a year...