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News Briefs
Date: Jun-08-2007
ENR ranks nation's top contractors The status Michigan-based construction contractors large enough to make the Engineering News Record's annual list of top revenue-makers generally held steady from 2006 to 2007....
Yet another dorm renovated at NMU
Date: Jun-08-2007
MARQUETTE - Northern Michigan University students had to be out of their Van Antwerp Hall rooms on May 5, just after the end of the winter semester. On May 8,...
'Absurd' ruling transforms nurses into supervisors; what group is next?
Date: May-25-2007
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Some nurses who make out schedules for co-workers, and construction journeymen who direct apprentices, are at the top of the list of U.S. employees who may be...
Booming out to Baghdad…Michigan tradesmen play key role in building U.S. embassy in Iraq
Date: May-25-2007
A contingent of building tradesmen from Michigan are truly putting the "journey" in journeyman, working 7,000 miles from home constructing a $592 million embassy complex on 104 acres. And it's...
News Briefs
Date: May-25-2007
Cerebral palsy bike run is July 28 The second annual Benjamin Franklin Memorial Poker Run will be held starting with registration at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 28 at the...
Pipe trades apprentice contest is taking root
Date: May-25-2007
ANN ARBOR - The long-dormant United Association of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Michigan State Apprentice Contest is starting to become routine, again. For the second straight year since the contest...
Trades work to reopen gate to the past
Date: May-25-2007
DETROIT - The Hurlbut Memorial Gate at the city's Waterworks Park was completed in 1894 - in an era when communities were willing to devote the resources to build public...
Unionized Homeland workers would 'negatively impact' U.S. security, Bush Administration says
Date: May-25-2007
WASHINGTON - President Bush has promised a veto of a Democrat-backed bill that would allow 125,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workers to operate under a collective bargaining agreement. Bush's...
Motor City Casino on the rise
Date: May-11-2007
The building trades are reaching for the top of the $275 million Motor City Casino, hotel and conference center. The top of the 17-story, 400-room hotel was nearing completion last...
New pains for pension plans aims to limit funding liability
Date: May-11-2007
LANSING - For better or worse, the pension plan administration business ain't what it used to be. The 900-page Pension Protection Act (PPA) of 2006 has done a number on...