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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
'Toot your horn' - consultant urges unions, contractors to improve marketing efforts
Date: Oct-12-2007
PLAINWELL - The unionized construction industry would do well to develop a far-sighted "battle plan" for its future survival rather than relying on what has - or hasn't - worked...
Trades bring their case to Miller-Canfield
Date: Oct-12-2007
KALAMAZOO - The first public office building since the Reagan Administration is going up downtown, in the form of the 151,000 square-foot structure that will house law offices for Miller,...
Consumers Energy picks Karn/Weadock site for new $2B plant
Date: Sep-28-2007
ESSEXVILLE - Consumers Energy has selected the grounds of its Karn/Weadock Generating Complex near Bay City as the site for construction of an 800-megawatt coal power plant. The cost of...
Memorial dedicated to tunnel workers: 'to lift some heavy hearts'
Date: Sep-28-2007
PORT HURON - More than 35 years after Michigan's worst construction accident claimed the lives of 22 workers, there was finally some closure for some of the victims' families on...
News Briefs
Date: Sep-28-2007
Ayres elected new BCTD president Mark Ayers, Director of the Construction and Maintenance Department of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) was elected as the new President of the...
North Terminal nearing its destination
Date: Sep-28-2007
ROMULUS - One year from now, airline passengers at Metro Airport's North Terminal will be checking luggage, getting tickets, enjoying a latte, wandering the concourse and waiting for their plane...
Panel OK's bill overturning NLRB's 'workers are supervisors' ruling
Date: Sep-28-2007
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Ultimately, it's a vote whose purpose will probably only illustrate the difference between typically union-friendly Democrats and anti-union Republicans. By a 26-20 party-line vote 11 months after...
Senate moves to prevent potential Mexican truck menace
Date: Sep-28-2007
WASHINGTON (PAI) - By a 74-24 margin, the U.S. Senate on Sept. 11 voted to ban uninspected Mexican trucks from U.S. roads. The vote was an attempt to sidetrack a...
Trades energize solar house project
Date: Sep-28-2007
SOUTHFIELD - Students at Lawrence Tech University participating in the Solar Decathlon 2007 have easy access to the plans, theories and textbooks that address energy efficient construction techniques. Not-so-readily available...
'Designed to bust unions'
Date: Sep-14-2007
The following letter was sent to Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 85 Business Representative Bill Hard, who passed it along to us. It is reprinted with the author's permission. Dear Bill,...