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Trades renovate Borgess Medical Cen
Date: Apr-14-2006
KALAMAZOO - Building trades workers and medical personnel are trying to keep out of each other's way during ongoing renovations at Borgess Medical Center. Phase 3 of a $106 million...
Why has Michigan's oldest pavement lasted so long?
Date: Apr-14-2006
Researchers look for clues in century-old concrete street By Jane Nordberg CALUMET - One of Calumet Village's unassuming residential side streets is receiving renewed attention from engineers and archeologists. Faculty...
Big Mac Bridge Museum to return
Date: Mar-31-2006
Recovering from a devastating fire, a popular Mackinaw City pizzeria which also served as home to a private museum dedicated to those who built the famous Mackinac Bridge is expected...
Building trades get to work modernizing Bronson Hospital
Date: Mar-31-2006
KALAMAZOO - Bronson Methodist Hospital and the building trades are moving dirt, performing demolition and getting started on a $50 million campus expansion program that will accommodate a 34 percent...
Hockey ref calls the shots at state high school finals
Date: Mar-31-2006
Refereeing a hockey game, it turns out, is a bit like plumbing a building. When the hockey game is over, and when construction on a building is complete, referees and...
Law would bar workers with criminal history from MI schools…
Date: Mar-31-2006
LANSING - Last December's passage of the "School Safety Initiative" by Michigan lawmakers had the noble goal of protecting school children from any potentially dangerous contract workers who may have...
News Briefs
Date: Mar-31-2006
Welcome aboard, Iron Workers 340 The Welcome Wagon goes out to Iron Workers Local 340, a Battle Creek-based local union that is subscribing to The Building Tradesman for the first...
Right-to-work returns to Lansing
Date: Mar-31-2006
LANSING - There always seem to be a state lawmaker or two willing to make the perennial push to make Michigan a right-to-work state. The Michigan AFL-CIO reports that state...
Strike actions decline, but past work stoppages hold useful lessons, author says
Date: Mar-31-2006
By Steve Early Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walkout...
GOP turnaround makes minimum wage hike likely in Michigan
Date: Mar-17-2006
LANSING - The circulation of petitions asking Michigan voters to approve an increase in the state's minimum wage prompted state Republicans - surprisingly - to reconsider their long opposition to...