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Granholm, GOP OK $1.5 billion jobs stimulus package
Date: Dec-09-2005
LANSING - A "21st Century Jobs Fund" was created Nov. 21 when Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed bills that will invest more than $2 billion in diversifying Michigan's economy and increasing...
Mason's handy invention - arrives on store shelves
Date: Dec-09-2005
Eric Gallup has a good grip on the five-gallon bucket market. As a marble mason, hauling five-gallon buckets, up, down and around job sites is a way of life for...
MDOT's road funding budget concentrates on 'preserve first'
Date: Dec-09-2005
LANSING - A "21st Century Jobs Fund" was created Nov. 21 when Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed bills that will invest more than $2 billion in diversifying Michigan's economy and increasing...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-09-2005
Building rate remains steady The value of new U.S. construction starts in October was valued at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $668.5 billion, unchanged from September. That's according to...
The Gangbox
Date: Dec-09-2005
No minimum wage in Congress. The Republican-controlled Congress, which has blocked a raise in the minimum wage three times this year, voted Nov. 18 to give itself its eighth pay raise...
Boilermakers 169: Don't forget, hire the vet
Date: Nov-25-2005
Boilermakers Local 169 is expanding its base of organizing operations, seeking and accepting the resumes of a handful of military veterans into its apprenticeship program. The organizing effort is taking...
Designer, erector, trades rise to the occasion at LCC
Date: Nov-25-2005
LANSING - Hardhats who toiled on the Lansing Community College (LCC) Health and Human Service facility, which wrapped up last spring, worked on an award-winning building. Building designer Ruby &...
IBEW hurricane victims blown off U.S. Navy job: their pay was too high
Date: Nov-25-2005
Following is a glimpse into one contractor's experience in an effort to gain work in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, This Louisiana-based IBEW...
Post-Katrina, market seems to be trumping prevailing wage, at least for now
Date: Nov-25-2005
It's impossible to draw long-term conclusions about trends affecting construction workers in the Gulf region, who are rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina hit the area just three months ago. Early on...
The building materials price market: not for the faint of heart
Date: Nov-25-2005
Early in this decade, the prices of construction "inputs" like sheet rock, cement, lumber, steel, diesel fuel and gasoline were fairly stable. Now, many of those costs are have all...