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Was anyone almost hurt on your work site today?
Date: Jan-25-2008
By Scott Schneider Laborers Health and Safety Fund of North America Have you ever been walking and a truck pulls out right in front of you? A few steps quicker...
Christmas presents given by building trades, contractors
Date: Jan-11-2008
Building trades workers and contractors displayed a generous spirit this holiday season, volunteering a considerable amount of time, money and materials to help two schools in Southeast Michigan. On Saturday,...
HealthSource Saginaw transformation moves to next phase
Date: Jan-11-2008
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP - The building trades last month completed the fourth phase of an eight-phase, $44 million construction project that will result in a wholesale transformation of the HealthSource Saginaw...
Kennecott's Eagle Mine wins state's OK
Date: Jan-11-2008
On Dec. 14, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources approved three principal environmental permits that will allow the construction of the Kennecott Eagle nickel and copper mine. The decision came...
Local 80's Ingalls accepts IU position
Date: Jan-11-2008
Harold "Tom" Ingalls, 57, business manager of Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 for the last 12 years - and serving for 12 years prior to that as local Business Agent...
News Briefs
Date: Jan-11-2008
'Wrong for Michigan' says anti-RTW effort A proactive effort to inform and sway Michigan residents about a potential right-to-work law for our state began a few weeks ago with a...
Use - not abuse - of apprentices will pay dividends later
Date: Jan-11-2008
(Second in a series) By Mark Breslin This month I would like to provide a lesson in demographic economics. I have no idea if such a thing exists but it...
'General nonsense' guides logic in splits among union
Date: Dec-21-2007
By Mark H. Ayers President AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department I would like to focus on a particular, on-going theme that causes me great concern - the fragmentation of...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-21-2007
NLRB chief defends anti-worker rulings National Labor Relations Board Chairman Robert Battista, a Republican appointed by President George W. Bush, took the unusual step on Dec. 13 of addressing charges...
On-the-job injury numbers don't always add up
Date: Dec-21-2007
Workplace injury and illness numbers in the U.S. may not be what they seem. News item from the Oct. 26 issue of The Building Tradesman: "The construction industry was a...