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Borgess remains committed to 'open market bidding process'
Date: Mar-01-2002
KALAMAZOO - Borgess Medical Center has not been swayed from its decision to hire a 75 percent nonunion workforce on a $76.9 million renovation project, despite letters of appeal from...
Carpenters demand drastic changes before re-affiliation with Building Trades Dept.
Date: Mar-01-2002
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners International Union would agree to re-join the other 14 international unions in the AFL-CIO Building Trades Department, but only if there is a...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Mar-01-2002
Hands off labor this election year? It's an election year in Congress - and while all the sure-to-come political ads may be bad news, the news on the legislative front...
OSHA flushes sanitation standard for construction
Date: Mar-01-2002
A federal standard to improve sanitation on U.S. construction sites is "dead in the water," according to an OSHA representative we spoke to last week. Over the last several years,...
Pay hikes for Michigan trades continue to outpace nation
Date: Mar-01-2002
Wage and fringe contract settlements for Michigan's unionized construction trades workers averaged 4.4 percent or $1.61 an hour in 2002 - above the national average of 4.1 percent and $1.39...
Smooth landing for Midfield Terminal
Date: Mar-01-2002
The remarkable skill displayed by the building trades in the construction of the new Midfield Terminal at Metro Airport was rarely mentioned in the media in the days and weeks...
Wayne State builds new center to meet and greet
Date: Mar-01-2002
Wayne State University will be rolling out the welcome wagon in August, in the form of the $18.5 million Welcome Center in Detroit. The building will provide visitors and prospective...
As Kmart's blue light dim, readers are asked to help
Date: Feb-15-2002
Kmart Corp.'s suppliers and lenders haven't given up on the bankrupt retailing giant, and Michigan's building trades workers are being asked to help, too. The troubled Troy-based retailer is down,...
Compuware's HQ movin' on up
Date: Feb-15-2002
The building trades and general contractor Walbridge-Aldinger are giving Compuware what they want: a headquarters-in-a-hurry. The first steel beams were placed on their 15-story, $350 million Detroit headquarters building last...
Final truss installation latest milestone for Ford Field
Date: Feb-15-2002
Suddenly, there's a lot more room to work on the playing field at Ford Field, the future home of the Detroit Lions. On Feb. 5, iron workers and operating engineers...