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New rolling billboards for sheet metal industry
Date: Oct-14-2005
Service trucks are the centerpiece of a joint advertising campaign by Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 and the Detroit Chapter of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-14-2005
Crane operator prevents accident Quick thinking by a crane operator dealing with mechanical failure in the rig's boom hoist prevented major damage or injury from happening Sept. 26 at a...
Trades' operations make more room for surgery
Date: Oct-14-2005
ANN ARBOR - A growing need for outpatient surgical and other medical care has resulted in the construction of the East Ann Arbor Ambulatory Surgery and Medical Procedures Center. The...
Bush's strategy for hurricane relief calls for lower wages
Date: Sep-30-2005
President George W. Bush's Sept. 8 decision to suspend the payment of prevailing wages to construction workers rebuilding the hurricane-stricken Gulf region was roundly criticized by union officials and one...
GAO affirms problems with apprenticeship oversight
Date: Sep-30-2005
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Serious problems exist in nonunion apprenticeship programs, and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) should take action to fix the programs as well as its own method...
New Detroit tower rises
Date: Sep-30-2005
new 10-story office tower "One Kennedy Square" joins the nearby Compuware building as the most recent additions to Detroit's skyline. Under construction in Detroit's central business district, the 10-story, green-glassed...
News Briefs
Date: Sep-30-2005
Inflation drags U.S. wage gains U.S. wages took a significant hike last year for some small groups of workers - including construction - but overall picked up only slightly for...
Post-hurricane material prices expected to rise
Date: Sep-30-2005
Construction material costs are expected to increase at least 10 percent next year following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, according to Associated General Contractors economist Ken Simonson. Drawing on...
The Gangbox - Assorted News & Notes
Date: Sep-30-2005
Saying its efforts to reform the AFL-CIO from within have ended, UNITE HERE, which represents 441,452 textile, clothing, hotel and restaurant workers, became the latest union to leave the labor federation....
Trades restore, modernize Detroit Southeastern HS
Date: Sep-30-2005
Detroit's oldest and most architecturally interesting school buildings, Southeastern High School is getting new life thanks to some $43 million in new construction and renovations. The school, with a student...