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News Briefs
Date: Apr-15-2005
School candidates endorsed for May The Greater Detroit Building and Construction Trades Council's Political Action Committee have a short list of endorsements for the Tuesday, May 3, 2005 school elections:...
Union pension funds start throwing their weight around
Date: Apr-15-2005
Union investment money is doing the talking - and in some cases, the walking - as organized labor is moving into a renewed strategy of using pension dollars to win...
Unions seek to create financial services powerhouse
Date: Apr-15-2005
Organized labor seems ready to start thinning out the herd of financial and insurance services that are offered to members. A proposal by Laborers International Union President Terrence O'Sullivan would...
Labor summit leader: Union reps, members need new business plan focused on 'profits, productivity, and value'
Date: Apr-01-2005
By Guy Snyder EAST LANSING - In the words of Mark Breslin, the secret of winning back market share for unionized construction in Michigan is pretty basic. It's convincing project...
News Briefs
Date: Apr-01-2005
Slight dip in '05 for construction wages Wage and benefit increases in the U.S. construction industry will "ease slightly" in 2005, according to the Construction Labor Research Council. Increases in...
NLRB works overtime - against workers
Date: Apr-01-2005
To most Americans, the NLRB is just another four-letter acronym for a little-understood government agency. For American workers and union members, the agency that was set up to defend their...
No pallets or forklifts in this new 'warehouse': only lofts
Date: Apr-01-2005
Urban lofts evoke images of transforming old commercial space into living quarters, complete with exposed structural steel, ductwork, conduit and brick walls. But there are tradeoffs to transforming, say, an...
Trades work to clear the air at Consumers Campbell plant
Date: Apr-01-2005
Consumers Energy's Campbell Generating Complex is in the process of getting more environmentally friendly. Engineer/constructor Babcock and Wilcox and the building trades are knee-deep in a $350 million project to...
How budget hacks have put the state budget out of whack
Date: Mar-18-2005
LANSING - The massive gap of revenues vs. income to fund operations of Michigan's government, said Lynn Jondahl, is "incredible - we have a structural deficit in Michigan that will...
News Briefs
Date: Mar-18-2005
Congress kills minimum wage hike WASHINGTON (PAI) - By a 49-46 vote, the Republican-led Senate on March 7 voted not to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour...