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News Briefs
Date: Apr-02-2004
Hunter safety program scheduled The 8th annual Hunter Safety Program hosted by state Sen. Deborah Cherry in conjunction with the Flint Area Building Trades is scheduled this year in early...
Price jumps for steel, other materials bite construction
Date: Apr-02-2004
“Nobody saw it coming,” the Engineering News Record reported last month. “After more than a decade of relative price stability, contractors have been blind-sided by the largest price hikes for materials since...
Soo Locks - ever dependable through the ups and downs of Great Lakes shipping
Date: Apr-02-2004
SAULT STE. MARIE – The 21-foot drop in water levels from Lake Superior down to the lower Great Lakes vexed British, French and native fur traders in the 1600s and...
Trades flock to Michigan Tech for new work and renovations
Date: Apr-02-2004
HOUGHTON – Michigan Technological University has sponsored major construction projects in recent years, but two ongoing simultaneous jobs are twice as nice for the building trades. The U.P. university is...
A better way to burn coal introduced to Erickson Station
Date: Mar-19-2004
One of the largest capital improvement projects at the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s Erickson Station powerhouse in the last two decades is now taking place, and the building...
Construction industry, say hello to your new trend: Outsourcing
Date: Mar-19-2004
Outsourcing jobs in the U.S. construction industry is now officially a trend. The Wall Street Journal, which pays attention to these things, said so earlier this month. Under the headline,...
Granholm to building trades: Why are we subsidizing this kind of job loss?
Date: Mar-19-2004
LANSING – The pending closure of the Electrolux plant – which makes Frigidaire refrigerators in Greenville – is the latest poster child for job losses in Michigan. Our state has...
News Briefs
Date: Mar-19-2004
Trades get to work at $800M GM plant DELTA TWP. – Ground was officially broken by dignitaries March 9 on the construction of a new $800 million vehicle assembly plant...
"Jobs, jobs, jobs" Unemployment dilemma looms over 2004 election cycle
Date: Mar-19-2004
Michigan’s statewide unemployment rate improved a full percentage point to 6.6 percent from January to December . But it is still well above the national jobless rate of 5.6 percent,...
Trades support CLEAR choice to fix electrical deregulation
Date: Mar-19-2004
Cable television. Telephone service. Now, electricity. The federal and state governments have a lousy record when it comes to deregulating public utilities. Costs have increased, and service has certainly not...