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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
Four more years at GDBTC for Devlin, Hamilton
Date: Jan-10-2003
Leadership at the Greater Detroit Building Trades Council (GDBTC) will remain unchanged for the next four years, as Patrick Devlin (Secretary-Treasurer) and John Hamilton (President) were re-elected without opposition to...
GOP controls a not-so-worker-friendly legislative agenda
Date: Jan-10-2003
WASHINGTON (PAI) – Comp time for overtime. Vouchers. More tax cuts for the rich. Another attack on Davis-Bacon. Those are just a few of the issues labor legislative representatives expect...
News Briefs
Date: Jan-10-2003
Trades get 2 wins in PLA decisions As time ran out on the year 2002, two building trades councils scored major victories in the fight to uphold project labor agreements...
Election 2002 - Union members went with Dems, even with Dems' weak message
Date: Dec-20-2002
A nationwide election night poll of union members found that 68 percent of union members voted for a Democrat in the U.S. House races and 70 percent voted for a...
Foreman given jail time after worker is electrocuted
Date: Dec-20-2002
For the first time in 27 years in Michigan, a construction worker has been given jail time for being responsible for a fellow worker's death on a job site. Michigan...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Dec-20-2002
Bush courts unions with terrorism insurance WASHINGTON (PAI) - Repeatedly saying "it's time to get our hard-hats back to work," GOP President George W. Bush used the signing ceremony for...
Pollution control project brings droves of trades to Consumers plant
Date: Dec-20-2002
ESSEXVILLE - The Karn-Weadock Generating Complex hasn't seen this much construction activity since the D.E. Karn plant first came on line in 1959. Owner Consumers Energy, general contractor Babcock and...
The Gangbox Assorted News and Notes
Date: Dec-20-2002
The nation's unemployment rate jumped 0.3 percent in November, to 6 percent, the Labor Department reported. The number of unemployed Americans rose by 299,000 in one month and the jobless...
Trades care about Care House
Date: Dec-20-2002
Building trades unions, union representatives and employees passed the hat once again this year to help the families who benefit from the services of Care House in Mt. Clemens. After...
Boensch, Devlin, Radjewski Help with Granholm's transition
Date: Dec-06-2002
Three building trades labor leaders have been appointed to Governor-elect Jennifer Granholm's transition team. Granholm has appointed Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council Secretary-Treasurer Tom Boensch, Greater Detroit Building and...