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Date: May-11-2007
Sheet Metal Workers Local 7: welcome The Building Tradesman puts out the welcome mat for Lansing-based Sheet Metal Workers Local 7. With this issue it joins the long list of...
'Spirit of Solidarity' monument is worth the wait
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...
State vows renewed vigor for Michigan's prevailing wage law
Date: May-11-2007
LANSING - The benign neglect of the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 is a thing of the past - at least for now. Keith Cooley, director of the state...
Survival story: worker responsibility key to future of construction unions, strategist says
Date: May-11-2007
SOUTHFIELD - Mark Breslin called his seminar "Survival of the Fittest," but from the outset, he suggested that there's a better name for the presentation. "'What's in it for you'...
Budget crisis quickens drumbeat for anti-labor legislation
Date: Apr-27-2007
LANSING - With Democrats in control of the state House and the governor's chair, passage of a right-to-work law and the outlawing of project labor agreements in Michigan are not...
Construction Marketing, 101 - The rules have changed
Date: Apr-27-2007
Editor's note: across Michigan, local unions and contractor associations are increasingly hosting management and workplace consultants at seminars to talk to members about how to get an edge over the...
For road work, it may not get any better than this
Date: Apr-27-2007
LANSING - By comparison with what lies ahead, the year 2007 is looking pretty good for highway funding - and for the rating of the condition of our state's roads...
Granholm lays out plan for 'investment' in Michigan
Date: Apr-27-2007
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm told Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council delegates that Michigan's job and budgetary woes are rooted in a state that has 630 percent more manufacturing...
News Briefs
Date: Apr-27-2007
Trades protest Belle Isle work Building trades crafts want to prepare the Belle Isle for the Detroit Grand Prix - but they can't get off the starting line. The quasi-public...
No easy answers for state's budget - The Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council Legislative Conference, 2007
Date: Apr-27-2007
LANSING - Did you hear Michigan's state government is in a budget crisis? Delegates to the 48th Legislative Conference of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council got an earful...