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AGC: union trades may 'expedite extinction' with ongoing battles
Date: Jun-27-2005
Union disunity is starting to raise red flags with construction employers. "It is indisputable that fears of costly and disruptive jurisdictional disputes have made many owners apprehensive about hiring union...
'Bigger picture' sought with reorganization of West Michigan Construction Alliance
Date: Jun-27-2005
Rome wasn't built in a day, and Michigan's ailing construction economy won't be re-built in a day, either. "It took us 30 years to get into this situation," said Ed...
Monday, Monday, Can't trust that day? Report says it's as safe as any other
Date: Jun-27-2005
There is a popular conception that most construction fatalities occur on Mondays and Fridays - but the statistics don't bear this out. Monday and Wednesday had an almost identical number...
News Briefs
Date: Jun-27-2005
SEIU OKs break from AFL-CIO In another ominous sign for the future of organized labor, the executive board of the nation's largest labor union this month gave its leadership the...
Pssst…feds clamping down on law-breaking employers
Date: Jun-27-2005
By Mark Dempsey The powers that be - the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - have joined forces to combat "The Evil Doers"...
Unique arches to create gateway to Detroit
Date: Jun-27-2005
Taking shape in Taylor is the first section of the dual-arch Gateway Bridge - a pair of matching, east-west 246-foot-long spans that will serve as a landmark for Metro Airport...
What's a-Foote: work starts on new emergency department
Date: Jun-27-2005
JACKSON - Foote Hospital's Emergency Department is getting busier. As a result, it's getting bigger. The hospital averaged 35,000 patient visits to its Emergency Department when the hospital opened in...
Carpenters end jurisdiction pacts
Date: Jun-10-2005
The "gloves are off in the fight over jurisdiction," the Construction Labor Report said last month, as the International Brotherhood of Carpenters canceled work assignment agreements with the Iron Workers...
Is organized labor headed for Splitsville?
Date: Jun-10-2005
By Aaron Bernstein Unless President John J. Sweeney goes, the deepening divisions within the AFL-CIO could see the union movement break into rival federations. Fifty years after the American Federation...
Most building trades leaders allied with Sweeney
Date: Jun-10-2005
While a number of union leaders are calling for the head of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, the majority of building trades union leaders want him to stick around for another...