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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
Focus on jobs prompts trades’ outreach to state GOP, Chamber
Date: Mar-19-2010
LANSING – Changing times, changing faces. The 51st annual Legislative Conference of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council broke some new ground by inviting guest speakers who have been traditionally...
Labor movement knocks Obama administration: ‘We’ve been sidelined’
Date: Mar-19-2010
ORLANDO, Fla. (PAI) – The labor movement is angry with the Obama administration – and some leaders say they’re only reflecting views of their members. That’s what came through after...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Mar-19-2010
Building trades say:Dillon for Governor LANSING – The Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, representing nearly 100,000 workers across the state, announced today that they are throwing their support behind...
New tower goes up at old tank plant
Date: Mar-19-2010
WARREN – The U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command is a major beneficiary of the 2005 Congressional Military Base Realignment and Closure directives, as the facility will welcome 1,251...
Outdoor lovers, DNR and MUCC would like to get to know you
Date: Mar-19-2010
LANSING – Every year around Nov. 15, it’s expected that productivity on construction sites around Michigan will suffer a bit with the mass migration of tradespeople headed out to the...
So far, lip service is only support for EFCA
Date: Mar-19-2010
ORLANDO, Fla. (PAI) –The Obama Administration is giving only verbal support, and nothing more, to the Employee Free Choice Act, a top legislative priority of organized labor – the movement...
Who’s got trouble? We’ve got trouble.
Date: Mar-19-2010
LANSING – Twice in a six-year period, U.S. stocks and other markets underwent stomach-churning, historic drops that the experts said should only come once in a lifetime. And to make...
Durant Hotel gets new lease on life
Date: Mar-05-2010
FLINT – Shuttered since 1973, the historic Durant Hotel is getting new life: its old walls will enclose modern apartments aimed at serving the student population at the nearby University...
Local 333 sends helping hands to New Orleans
Date: Mar-05-2010
Plumbers & Pipefitters, LU 333, of Lansing, Michigan has certainly suffered its share in the downed economy but not enough to prevent the Local from giving generously to others in...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Mar-05-2010
What are you going to do, fire us? Here’s a new one. Whirlpool is planning to shut down a refrigerator factory in Evansville, Indiana by June and ship its operations,...