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...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...