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Young welders get an elbow up during Boilermakers competition
Date: May-30-2008
Anticipated power plant construction, as well as maintenance and expansion of existing boilers around Michigan, is expected to bring about a boom in the need for welders during the next...
'Hire Michigan First' clears some hurdles, but many remain
Date: May-16-2008
LANSING - A series of bills that make up the "Hire Michigan First" initiative cleared the state House Labor and Commerce Committee last month, but the future of the package...
Iron Workers show off new training center
Date: May-16-2008
WIXOM - The new and improved Iron Workers Local 25 Training Center is open for business. A ribbon-cutting on April 25 marked the grand opening of the facility. It was...
McCain's voting record shows worker issues not his priority
Date: May-16-2008
Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been a U.S. senator from Arizona since 1987, after serving as a U.S. House member for four years. His 25 years of service as...
Nationwide IBEW training program seeks new home, finds it at U-M
Date: May-16-2008
ANN ARBOR - Washtenaw County is proving to be a nationwide magnet for building trades training. For the last 19 years, nearly 2,000 instructors for the United Association of Plumbers,...
News Briefs
Date: May-16-2008
Still good news in nonresidential Washington, D.C. - The nation's nonresidential construction market apparently hasn't received the memo that the nation is teetering toward a recession. "Nonresidential construction spending rose...
U-M envisions growth for expanded eye center
Date: May-16-2008
ANN ARBOR - When the $121 million expansion of the Kellogg Eye Center is complete, it will be "the largest and most comprehensive eye center in the Midwest," according to...
Union apprentices are an investment worth protecting
Date: May-16-2008
By Mark Breslin (Eleventh in a series) What would you do if you watched someone kick a big dent in the door of your new F-150? Or someone spit on...
Bringing foremen to the forefront is path to higher union share
Date: May-02-2008
By Mark Breslin (Tenth in a series) Our industry can double both market share and union membership in ten years. I firmly believe this and also have a strategy for...
Clinton, Obama build their case before building trades delegates
Date: May-02-2008
Clinton: 'We will give you the tools to enforce Davis-Bacon' Obama: "It's time we had a president who didn't choke on saying the word 'union' " By Mark Gruenberg PAI...