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State pipe trades apprentices reach for the top of their trade

Date: May-15-2015

KALAMAZOO - The state's pipe trades apprentices showed their talents, apprenticeship coordinators shared information on instruction, and the United Association took another step forward. So it went April 30-May 1...

Boilermakers high school competition creates 'mutual benefits'

Date: May-15-2015

ALLEN PARK – Now in its 13th year, the Boilermakers Local 169 High School Welding Invitational has earned a permanent spot on the spring calendar, establishing a program of matching...

Construction's jobless rate drops to 9-year low

Date: May-15-2015

U.S. construction firms added 45,000 jobs in April and 280,000 over 12 months, as the sector's unemployment rate fell to a nine-year April low of 7.5 percent, according to an...

News Briefs

Date: May-15-2015

Lots of bipartisan support for D-B Act      WASHINGTON, DC - Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act is in dire straits in Lansing, with state Republican leaders set to take up repeal...

At your service...Consumers Energy facilities rise around state

Date: May-01-2015

CLARE - Consumers Energy is one of the state's steadiest employers of building trades workers, primarily hiring them to perform maintenance and upgrades at their power plants such as the...

Building trades' McGarvey urges outreach plan for construction unions 'It simply makes no sense to put all of our eggs in one political basket'

Date: May-01-2015

WASHINGTON D.C. - Building trades membership and market share are up, the business community is again starting to recognize the value provided by construction union labor, work opportunities are improving,...

Fast-track, TPP, advance over labor's protests

Date: May-01-2015

By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - Seizing their most-prominent public chance to blast fast-track “free trade authority” for the president – any president – labor leaders denounced...

Iron Workers re-up commitment to WCC

Date: May-01-2015

ANN ARBOR - Washtenaw Community College (WCC) and the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Union signed a five-year contract extension March 18 to continue to...

Michigan construction enjoying a resurgence

Date: May-01-2015

Michigan's construction industry, so far, is thoroughly enjoying 2015. Our state was ranked No. 4 nationwide in construction industry job gains in March 2015 vs. March 2014, up 10.4 percent...

News Briefs

Date: May-01-2015

RTW states' wages are 3.1% lower  Something to look forward to in Michigan... Wages are 3.1 percent lower in so-called “right to work” (RTW) states, for union and nonunion workers...