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Smaller increases for construction wages, benefits
Date: Jan-21-2005
Construction collective bargaining agreement increases in the U.S. in 2004 averaged 1.36 per hour, or 3.8 percent for the first year, according to the Construction Labor Research Council. That increase...
Trades get workout at Detroit YMCA
Date: Jan-21-2005
When it opens in early December, no doubt it will be fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A in downtown Detroit. But until then, there's a lot of work to be...
Beware of the costs, consequences of 'fixing' Social Security
Date: Jan-07-2005
With privatization of Social Security at or near the top of President Bush's agenda, the House Ways and Means Committee Democratic staff prepared a report on the federal insurance program....
Innovative M-6 opens, complete with a 'spooey'
Date: Jan-07-2005
One year ahead of schedule, one of Michigan's largest transportation projects is complete. The new $650 million M-6 (Paul B. Henry Freeway) in southern Kent and Ottawa counties was opened...
Labor needs to look 'long and hard at what we are doing'
Date: Jan-07-2005
AFL-CIO Building Trades Dept. President Edward Sullivan recently sent a letter to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, outlining the building trades' position on reforming the labor federation and any proposed union...
Michigan Construction Outlook 2005
Date: Jan-07-2005
As we flip the odometer on 2005, Michigan's unionized construction industry is still having trouble finding a solid foothold to climb out of the hole it is in. A select...
News Briefs
Date: Jan-07-2005
More road 'donors' on Senate panel The battle to straighten out funding for construction and maintenance of the nation's roads and bridges probably won't be solved in Congress for months...
Sweeney acknowledges AFL-CIO changes, Teamsters suggest how
Date: Jan-07-2005
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Many in organized labor are seeking to change the mission and the structure of the AFL-CIO and its affiliate unions. AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney - whose...
Jobs faucet turns off at Water Works Park
Date: Dec-24-2004
You work hard, you do some nice work, then you bury what you've done. It seems a shame, but that about sums up a lot of the work performed at...
Masons to put a handsome new face on old Beaubien House
Date: Dec-24-2004
With a few nip and tuck points where needed, new mortar, as well as a vigorous cleaning, a facelift on the exterior brick of one of Detroit's oldest homes -...