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Unions wonder if huge pension bailout sets nasty precedent
Date: May-27-2005
(PAI) - Some union employees of United Airlines had their financial world rocked earlier this month when a federal bankruptcy judge allowed the struggling airline to dump a record $6.6...
Battle Creek Oks prevailing wage law
Date: May-13-2005
BATTLE CREEK - City Commissioners on April 12 lowered the level by which prevailing wages must be paid on taxpayer-funded construction projects. The previous level was $500,000; now, prevailing wages...
Big top covers Phoenix Center
Date: May-13-2005
The new roof over the Phoenix Plaza Amphitheater in Pontiac is similar in material to the one covering the nearby Silverdome - but with a circus-tent theme. The 38,000-square-foot roof,...
Consensus lacking among plans to revamp AFL-CIO
Date: May-13-2005
WASHINGTON (PAI) - An AFL-CIO revamp plan, issued by its top three leaders, calls for more money for organizing and mobilizing, year-round issues campaigns, more coordinated strategic organizing and voluntary...
Labor begins new push for Employee Free Choice Act
Date: May-13-2005
WASHINGTON (PAI) - A bill that is probably more symbol than substance will attempt to promote a few union objectives in our nation's anti-union capitol. Flanked by workers harassed or...
News Briefs
Date: May-13-2005
Construction advances in 2005 New construction starts in March advanced 4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $594.1 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill...
Rebuild structure of unionized construction, organizing guru suggests
Date: May-13-2005
After unionized construction in the U.S. has "failed to turn the proverbial corner" toward increased market share after steady declines over the last half century - are the nation's building...
Trades raise the roof on two concert venues
Date: May-13-2005
File this under "construction coincidences." The building trades last month were wrapping up the construction of roof structures over two significant open air concert venues. Both projects followed a similar...
'ABC programs do not work' - Study points out lousy nonunion training record
Date: Apr-29-2005
WASHINGTON D.C. - The Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO on April 11 released the final report in an extensive two-year study of apprenticeship programs sponsored by the Associated Builders...
Blink and you might miss NMU's Magers Hall renovation
Date: Apr-29-2005
MARQUETTE - The Magers Hall renovation at Northern Michigan University isn't the largest, most complex, or architecturally significant renovation to take place on campus. But it is the fastest. Three...