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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
OSHA seems better at correcting grammar than workplace hazards
Date: Jul-20-2007
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Union leaders and lawmakers cheered the end of President George W. Bush's "trade promotion authority," also known as "fast track," at midnight on June 30. Fast track...
Trades play their hand in Greektown
Date: Jul-20-2007
DETROIT - All the action was outside the Greektown Casino last week, as the building trades and the joint venture of Jenkins/Skanska started the process of expanding the existing structure...
News Briefs
Date: Jul-06-2007
ABC spins out 'victory' for workers All of a sudden, the Associated Builders and Contractors is interested in the welfare of workers? The anti-union contractor group ABC, which opposed enhanced...
Out with the old blast furnace, in with the new… in 100 days
Date: Jul-06-2007
DEARBORN - Steel making at the Ford Rouge has continued unabated since the complex was opened in the 1920s - and with a $300 million investment to upgrade one of...
Positive spin aside, labor lost - now what's Plan B?
Date: Jul-06-2007
By Harry Kelber 'The Labor Educator' U.S. Senate Republicans were able to block an up-and-down vote on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), where the measure had a slim majority...
Republicans derail pro-union EFCA; Labor vows return in friendlier Congress
Date: Jul-06-2007
WASHINGTON - In the end, the Employee Free Choice Act was doomed, but it did provide some important information for union voters in 2008. The pro-union EFCA - one of...
Steel's up on GM test lab
Date: Jul-06-2007
PONTIAC - An expansion of the General Motors Engine Dynamometer Test Facility reached a milestone June 15, with GM, their contractors and the building trades celebrating the topping out of...
The big 5-0 for the Mighty Mac
Date: Jul-06-2007
ST. IGNACE - Michigan is throwing a 50th anniversary party for the Mackinac Bridge - and we're all invited. The world's 10th longest suspension bridge, the five-mile-long Mighty Mac was...
Unions laud demise of immigration bill
Date: Jul-06-2007
Any chance for comprehensive reform of the nation's immigration laws finally came to an end June 28, when the U.S. Senate voted failed to get enough votes (46-53) to end...
A PAI Special Report: Labor law turned upside down...Taft-Hartley signed 60 years ago
Date: Jun-22-2007
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - On June 23, 1947, U.S. labor law turned upside down. That's when the Republican-run 80th Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, by...