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News Briefs
Date: Sep-02-2005
58's Radjewski promoted to IU Jeff Radjewski, business manager of IBEW Local 58 for the last eight years, was chosen last month by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers as...
The workingmen's (and women's) holiday: 'who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.'
Date: Sep-02-2005
The history of the Labor Day "Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country," said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president...
Today's K.I. Sawyer a model for redevelopment
Date: Sep-02-2005
- Many communities around the nation are distressed about the latest round of military base closings that are currently on the Pentagon's front burner. But what has happened at the...
Congress Oks 6-year plan for highway construction
Date: Aug-19-2005
After nearly two years of disagreement on funding levels, Congress and President Bush have come to terms on a plan that will guarantee $286.5 billion in federal money for highway...
Delegates approve restructuring of Michigan Building Trades Council
Date: Aug-19-2005
SAULT STE. MARIE - An historic consolidation is in the works that will result in a larger, unifying role for the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council. Delegates to the...
Michigan AFL-CIO's Gaffney: Labor split not a 'short-term deal'
Date: Aug-19-2005
The Michigan AFL-CIO - like its national parent - is significantly smaller than it was a month ago - when three major unions dropped out of the national AFL-CIO to...
Michigan trades council sought 'solid front' in 1957 formation
Date: Aug-19-2005
Now firmly entrenched as a single-source, leading advocate for the state's trade unions and unionized construction workers, the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council was first established in Lansing in...
More room for Linden students
Date: Aug-19-2005
LINDEN - A burgeoning school population has brought about the construction of a new Linden Middle School, which is being built by construction manager Barton Malow and building trades workers....
News Briefs
Date: Aug-19-2005
Celebrate Labor's Day on Sept. 5 The building trades and the rest of organized labor will on the march again on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5, and union members across...
'Trying times' for labor, but opportunities, too
Date: Aug-19-2005
SAULT STE. MARIE - In a number of ways, the 48th annual convention of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council provided a status report on organized labor in Michigan....