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Some Dems push to tie road money with prevailing wage save
Date: Oct-16-2015
The statewide petition drive to abolish the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 is continuing, as is the related public information campaign by the law's supporters and misinformation campaign by...
Splash of primary colors mark DMC-Troy Children's Hospital
Date: Oct-16-2015
TROY - For drivers along Big Beaver Rd. east of I-75, the new Children's Hospital of Michigan-Troy looks like someone got out a giant box of Lego pieces and went...
Boilermakers 169 turns out another top apprentice
Date: Oct-02-2015
Three out of the last four winners of the Boilermakers National Apprenticeship Competition have hailed from Michigan's Local 169. That remarkable record of success continued this year due to the...
Construction lull seen as short-term
Date: Oct-02-2015
It has been a good year for employment in Michigan's construction industry. But recently the job numbers have been moving in the wrong direction. According to a Sept. 18 report...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-02-2015
Revard moves up in Insulators union One of the two leadership changes at the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers has a Michigan connection. In August...
Steel's up at FRIB's office tower
Date: Oct-02-2015
EAST LANSING - With a price tag of $730 million, there's bound to be a few construction milestones associated with the FRIB- the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams going up...
Trades keep M-1 project on the rails
Date: Oct-02-2015
Working through the cold of winter and the heat of summer - and alongside traffic on a busy thoroughfare - Hardhats constructing Detroit's M-1 Rail project on Woodward Avenue have...
Trades push for hands off prevailing wage in exchange for road funding support
Date: Oct-02-2015
LANSING - Republicans and perhaps some Democrats in the state Legislature are looking to pass a "clean" bill that permanently provides Michigan with hundreds of millions of dollars for road...
Unions still a vital force in U.S. economy
Date: Sep-18-2015
By Sean McGarvey President North America's Building Trades Unions Today, pundits of all political stripes are bound to repeat a familiar refrain about the decline of American labor unions. Young...
Landmark labor ruling could open the door to more union bargaining
Date: Sep-18-2015
WASHINGTON - A ruling issued Aug. 27 by the National Labor Relations Board "will make many business leaders’ heads spin," says the National Law Review. The Wall Street Journal's lead...