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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
WCC's health and fitness center is shaping up
Date: Mar-16-2007
ANN ARBOR - Building trades workers are in fine form at the new Washtenaw Community College Health and Fitness Center. The bright 75,000-square-foot facility's signature feature is a huge open...
Court to Bush Labor Dept.: Why the holdup with the protective equipment rule?
Date: Mar-02-2007
WASHINGTON (PAI) - A federal appellate court has ordered the Bush Labor Department to explain, within a month, why it has taken eight years to impose a rule that requires...
House panel approves Employee Free Choice act; Cheney issues Bush veto threat
Date: Mar-02-2007
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer (PAI) - By a 26-19 party-line vote, the House Education and Labor Committee voted Feb. 14 for the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill...
It's game on for building trades working at MGM's grand casino
Date: Mar-02-2007
DETROIT - The ongoing construction of the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel on the western fringe of downtown Detroit is like "putting up four $100 million projects at the same...
Mackinac Bridge's 50th anniversary slated
Date: Mar-02-2007
If your summer schedule is open, and you're considering a trip in or around the Straits of Mackinac, you might want to circle Friday and Saturday, July 27-28 on your...
News Briefs
Date: Mar-02-2007
Benefit set for electrician's son A dinner and silent auction to benefit Jacob Voisinet - the son of an IBEW Local 665 member - will be held Saturday, March 24...
State's roads face funding pothole
Date: Mar-02-2007
LANSING - Michigan spent about $1.5 billion on road and bridge construction projects in 2006 and will spend about $1.62 billion this year - but annual expenditures - are expected...
America's workers need the Employee Free Choice Act
Date: Feb-16-2007
By Tula Connell via the AFL-CIO If your employer tries to cut your health care and pension by 98 percent, what do you do? As a rule, not much. Unless...
Bush seeks fast-track renewal
Date: Feb-16-2007
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - Pursuing his determination to create free trade pacts without worker rights, President George W. Bush on Jan. 30 asked the Democratic-run...
Construction industry study: New strategies needed to win recruits
Date: Feb-16-2007
A "radical change" in how workforce development is conducted - including a blunt suggestion to start recruiting a more non-white workforce - is needed to fill employment needs in the...