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Date: Oct-09-2009
More jobless $ hits Senate snag WASHINGTON (PAI) – By a 331-83 margin, the House voted on Sept. 22 to extend jobless benefits to millions of unemployed people in at...
Rally time: Trades demand permits for clean coal plants
Date: Oct-09-2009
LANSING – “What part of J-O-B-S don’t you understand?” That was the question asked at a rally held at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 6 on the lawn in front of...
Tradesman wins top award among labor publications
Date: Oct-09-2009
The Building Tradesman took first place in the General Excellence category in the 2009 International Labor Communications Association’s (ILCA) annual media contest. The awards were handed out Sept. 12 in...
Trades protest coal plant obstacles
Date: Oct-09-2009
By Patrick Devlin Secretary Treasurer & Patrick “Shorty” Gleason President Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council LANSING – The Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council this week staged a rally...
U.S. construction’s 17.1% jobless rate packs wallop for nonresidential sector
Date: Oct-09-2009
The national unemployment rate for the construction industry rose to 17.1 percent as another 64,000 construction workers lost their jobs in September, according to an analysis of new employment data...
Guardian Building’s remodel will keep office space viable
Date: Sep-25-2009
DETROIT – The 40-story Guardian Building’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places calls it “one of the most exuberant Art Deco skyscrapers built in America.” Built with its...
More roadblocks for power plant work
Date: Sep-25-2009
The Michigan Public Service Commission dropped a bombshell report on the state utilities, contractors and the building trades Sept. 8, by releasing its findings during the application process that said...
New AFL-CIO chief Trumka pledges to lead labor in fight to rebuild middle class
Date: Sep-25-2009
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer PITTSBURGH (PAI) – Promising what visually and verbally seems to be an image of muscular leadership of organized labor, former coal miner Richard L....
News Briefs
Date: Sep-25-2009
Trades mourn death of Ray Glowski Ray Glowski, retired secretary-treasurer of the Greater Detroit Building and Construction Trades Council, passed away Sept. 4, 2009. He was 80 years old. Mr....
Obama to AFL-CIO: ‘When organized labor succeeds, the middle class succeeds’
Date: Sep-25-2009
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer PITTSBURGH (PAI) –Amid a tumultuous welcome that could have raised the roof of Pittsburgh’s convention center – had that been do-able – President Barack...