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Date: Dec-22-2017
Prevailing wage rally set for Jan. 10 LANSING - A rally is scheduled for 8 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10 at the State Capitol Building in Lansing to show support for the...
New sheetmetal coil line puts Mall City on a roll
Date: Dec-22-2017
KALAMAZOO - Bending and shaping sheet metal is a whole lot easier and more efficient these days at Mall City Mechanical. The company's fabrication shop, which employs Local 7 sheet...
Prevailing wage support rally set for Jan. 10
Date: Dec-22-2017
LANSING – A rally is scheduled for 8 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10 at the State Capitol Building in Lansing to show support for the state’s prevailing wage law. The Capitol...
Stop everything. NLRB's top cop puts brakes on many pro-worker rulings
Date: Dec-22-2017
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - Discrimination against union workers during bargaining. Holding joint employers – a corporate headquarters and its local franchise-holders – responsible for obeying,...
Construction industry forecasters generally upbeat
Date: Dec-08-2017
Today's strong construction market cannot make anyone who has held a journeyman's card over the past decade forget that Michigan notoriously suffered under a one-state economic depression a decade ago...
Counter petition to retain prevailing wage: count on it, says Michigan Building Trades Council
Date: Dec-08-2017
LANSING - While the examination process continues to determine if there are enough valid signatures collected by Protect Michigan Taxpayers to overturn the state's prevailing wage law, the Michigan Building...
Dems make another effort to expand overtime pay eligibility
Date: Dec-08-2017
WASHINGTON D.C. - The Restoring Overtime Pay Act, introduced in Congress on Dec. 1, would give 12 million workers new or strengthened rights to get paid overtime when they work...
Long-term trends: Who's gonna do the work? And will we change the way it's done?
Date: Dec-08-2017
By Jacob Snyder The Association of Union Constructors Construction has historically been an industry that often lags behind what other industries and markets are seeing in terms of trends. However,...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-08-2017
U.S. construction drops in October The familiar up-and-down "sawtooth" pattern that has characterized the fortunes of U.S. construction came to light once again in the latest Dodge Data and Analytics report....
Out of the closets: BC cops ready for roomier, modern HQ building
Date: Dec-08-2017
BATTLE CREEK - The city's cramped, worn out and outmoded police headquarters building is getting a modern, roomier, more functional replacement, thanks to the ongoing work of construction manager Schweitzer...