Older Issues
The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
An economic theory only Mayor McCheese could love
Date: Mar-05-2004
Who knew that assembling a Whopper or a Big Mac may be just like building an automobile. “When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a...
Bush's economic chief: Outsourcing U.S. jobs is 'probably a plus'
Date: Mar-05-2004
Perhaps the defining issue in this year’s presidential election is our nation’s loss of manufacturing and other good-paying jobs that have taken place since the Bush Administration has been in...
Hard work, education under way to make prevailing wage prevail
Date: Mar-05-2004
In some counties, on federally funded building projects, the prevailing wage and benefit package for construction workers in various trades is $7.50 to $8 per hour. You would figure those...
Legislation affecting asbestosis cases may do more harm than good
Date: Mar-05-2004
Will Congress finally approve a reformed agenda for dealing with present and future asbestosis cases? The issue over how to compensate asbestosis/mesothelioma victims – thousands of whom have worked in...
Visteon Village offers new version of corporate headquarters
Date: Mar-05-2004
VAN BUREN TWP. – Here comes the neighborhood. Visteon Corp., one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, has taken an unusual approach to the construction of its new world headquarters....
With more Wolverine fans over the years, U-M Stadium has grown with the times
Date: Mar-05-2004
ANN ARBOR – Renovated and expanded over the years, the University of Michigan Stadium today has one of the nation’s largest seating capacities for football stadiums – but it could...
Bricklayers rediscover lost art of lighthouse construction
Date: Feb-20-2004
It looks like a lighthouse. It was modeled after a lighthouse. But the U.S. Coast Guard prefers that we don’t call it a lighthouse. We’re going call it a lighthouse,...
In 2003, another drop for union membership
Date: Feb-20-2004
WASHINGTON (PAI) – Union membership declined again in 2003, dropping to 12.9 percent of the nation’s workforce, compared to 13.3 percent in 2002. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...
Kerry endorsed by building trades for U.S. president
Date: Feb-20-2004
All aboard the Kerry bandwagon. With a candidacy given up for dead just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has swept nearly all the states...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Feb-20-2004
House reinstates jobless $ – sort of First the good news: the Republican-run U.S. House of Representatives approved a six-month reinstatement of federal jobless benefits on Feb. 4. And now...