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Once the world's longest bridge, Ambassador now distinguished for its years of stately service
Date: Apr-13-2001
Notoriety surrounding the Ambassador Bridge was never so great as the day it opened to traffic on Nov. 11, 1929. At 1,850 feet between its main anchorages, the span was...
Paltry GOP support helps sustain prevailing wage
Date: Apr-13-2001
LANSING - Prevailing wage continues to be one of the Republican Party's favorite whipping boys, but the state law is being saved by a few GOP members who haven't joined...
School's still out on school inspection legislation
Date: Apr-13-2001
Last summer we published a story under the headline, "school inspection bill finally makes the grade among state lawmakers." Before the year was out, it was expected that the lawmakers...
Want to improve industry's image? Ask the people who wear the hard hats
Date: Apr-13-2001
Tradesman Viewpoint There's yet another call to improve the construction industry's "image" - and to do that, improving worker pay is moving ever-so-slowly onto the radar screen. Robert Desjardins, incoming...
Asbestos claim date looms; do you know your rights?
Date: Mar-30-2001
Editor's note: Mr. Clack was invited to speak to the Michigan Building Trades Council Legislative Conference last month about workers' asbestosis legal rights. We asked him to write a column...
Labor Ready hounded by building trades
Date: Mar-30-2001
The AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department is hot on the trail of Labor Ready - a nationwide temporary employer that puts to work thousands of low-paid, nonunion construction workers...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Mar-30-2001
Hunter safety program scheduled Make plans to attend the fifth annual hunter safety program, hosted by state Sen. John Cherry and the Flint Area Building Trades. The free Michigan Department...
Silverdome still a great facility, but that probably won't save it
Date: Mar-30-2001
In 1975, The Engineering News Record called it "one of the greatest design and construction achievements of our time." The same year, The National Society of Professional Engineers called it...
Unions welcome Aaron workers
Date: Mar-30-2001
One of the largest nonunion mechanical contractors in the state has been forced to get along with a significant reduction in their workforce. At the same time, a number of...
U.S. construction pay barely beats inflation during 1990s
Date: Mar-30-2001
The case for raising construction industry wages was made a little more strenuously last month in an analysis of nationwide pay trends from 1991-2000. Information released by the Construction Labor...