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Trades operate at BC Health System
Date: Mar-03-2006
BATTLE CREEK - A bigger and better Battle Creek Health System campus is on the way, in the form of a $29 million expansion project highlighted by a new lobby...
Union departures rock building trades - Six unions start new federation
Date: Mar-03-2006
(PAI) - The AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department was stunned Feb. 14 when six unions - the Laborers, Operating Engineers, Carpenters, Teamsters, Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers and Iron Workers...
Union pay advantage grows
Date: Mar-03-2006
Union members continue to earn substantially higher wages and receive superior benefits at work than nonunion workers, according to recently released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)....
Construction contracts up, but inflation isn't far behind
Date: Feb-12-2006
First-year settlements in construction labor agreements negotiated in 2005 averaged $1.53 or 3.9 percent, according to the Construction Labor Research Council. The average first-year increases were just above the 3.8...
'Deadbeat boss' legislation takes roost in Michigan
Date: Feb-12-2006
LANSING - The U.S. Congress has utterly unable or unwilling to provide Americans relief on health care costs. The cost of health care have been increasingly pushed to the states,...
'Friends Of Labor' cuts across job titles to boost local candidates
Date: Feb-12-2006
By Guy Snyder Political involvement on the local government level by union members and organized labor supporters often proves difficult to achieve. Though labor's voice should be heard on school...
Have a seat - community re-welcomes Johnson Controls
Date: Feb-12-2006
BATTLE CREEK - The building trades are re-tooling the Johnson Controls Metals and Mechanisms facility in the Fort Custer Industrial Park, getting it ready for full production as an automotive...
News Briefs
Date: Feb-12-2006
U.S. construction ends 2005 up 10% The final numbers for 2005 are in, revealing that total U.S. construction advanced 10 percent from 2004 to $651.4 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction....
Timely prevailing wage survey means more union job opportunities
Date: Feb-12-2006
by David Plawecki, Deputy Director Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth (This is the third and final story in a series about the fair enforcement of Michigan's Prevailing Wage...
Weill Hall provides home to policy center
Date: Feb-12-2006
ANN ARBOR - The wheels of construction are turning on Weill Hall, a new 80,000-square-foot building that will house the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. According to the...