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North Terminal reaches for the top
Date: Apr-27-2007
ROMULUS - The last major structural steel beam was lifted into place April 18, signifying the topping out of the $426 million Metro Airport North Terminal Redevelopment Project. Iron Workers...
Building trades council mainstay Mary Bechtol retires
Date: Apr-13-2007
LANSING - No one keeps statistics on people who keep the same job for four decades. But if they did, it would likely be a short list - and now,...
Building trades legislative conference, '07
Date: Apr-13-2007
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Speaking to a sun-splashed rally of building trades delegates workers on Capitol Hill, and a conference in a hotel ballroom - a number of pro-worker politicians told...
Icon on Bond moves toward a high-end finish
Date: Apr-13-2007
GRAND RAPIDS -The Icon on Bond condominium project is moving along nicely toward completion at the end of this summer. Exterior brick-work is complete, tile work has started, drywall is...
Mock training teams up rescue, construction personnel
Date: Apr-13-2007
ANN ARBOR - A construction worker goes in the hole. How do you apply first aid and get him out quickly and safely? That was the first of three joint...
News Briefs
Date: Apr-13-2007
Building trades council mainstay Mary Bechtol retires The Greater Detroit Building and Construction Trades Council is urging building trades workers who live in White Lake Township and along the M-59...
Senate hearing shows partisan divide on EFCA
Date: Apr-13-2007
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - The stark partisan differences that accompanied House passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) earlier this year followed into a...
Building trades pension funding improves, mostly
Date: Mar-30-2007
A cycle of relative instability in the nation's multi-employer pension plans - a category which covers all the building trades unions - may be drawing to a close. A report...
Chasing low wages won't fix what ails Michigan
Date: Mar-30-2007
By Mark Gaffney Michigan AFL-CIO President A Viewpoint Labor union members in Michigan find themselves injected into a debate about how to fix Michigan's economy and make our state more...
Labor Monument to be dedicated April 19
Date: Mar-30-2007
GRAND RAPIDS - The unveiling of the "Spirit of Solidarity" monument in Ah-Nab- Awen Park near the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum near downtown will take place Thursday, April 19...