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Construction pay, benefit rates up, but they've been higher
Date: Oct-03-2003
U.S. construction union wage and benefit settlements through September 2003 have resulted in an average first-year increase of $1.36 or 4.1 percent, and a second-year increase of $1.35 or 3.8...
Detroit's Point of Origin marker? It was right here.
Date: Oct-03-2003
For nearly two centuries, the original survey monument for the layout of the City of Detroit and the Michigan Territory lay buried beneath seven feet of earth and rubble at...
Granholm puts 'Labor' back in re-organized Michigan government
Date: Oct-03-2003
LANSING - Once again, Michigan has a Department of Labor. This time, its full name is the Department of Labor and Economic Growth (with a new acronym, DLEG), and it...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Oct-03-2003
Falls remain No. 1 killer An analysis of 2001 U.S. construction fatalities released in July revealed what most studies about construction fatalities discover: falls from heights was the No. 1...
Trades conduct new masterpiece: the renovated Orchestra Hall
Date: Oct-03-2003
Orchestra Hall's sterling record for near-perfect acoustics hasn't changed a note since the hall opened on Oct. 23, 1919. While the hall itself has remained the same over the years,...
UP employers expect better times
Date: Oct-03-2003
MARQUETTE - Construction employers in the Upper Peninsula expect increased revenue and to hire more workers this year than in the past, according to a new Northern Michigan University survey....
Appeals Court upholds prevailing wage, but Supreme Court looms
Date: Sep-19-2003
LANSING - The Michigan Prevailing Wage Act survived another assault by the anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors, as a state Court of Appeals panel ruled last month that the law...
Hardhats help form new safety measures following disasters
Date: Sep-19-2003
Thousands of building trades workers who volunteered to look for victims immediately after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers two years ago this month are among the event's...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Sep-19-2003
Trades MOVE into new organizing mode The Building Trades Department, AFL-CIO, has announced a new training agenda that will be the successor to the 14-year-old COMET program. The new program...
Senate cancels rules to deny OT for workers
Date: Sep-19-2003
WASHINGTON - A strong push by organized labor won over a handful of Republican senators on Sept. 10, who voted with Democrats to bar the Bush Administration from issuing new...