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Road repair package goes to the voters
Date: Jan-09-2015
LANSING – Michigan’s legislature punted on its final opportunity in 2014 to raise money to repair our state’s crumbling roads, opting to let voters decide in a May special election...
Congress OKs pension reform bill
Date: Dec-19-2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A small attachment to a large $1.1 trillion spending package which passed Congress this month could be the first step toward improving protections for financially troubled multiemployer...
Frustration mounts over OSHA's slow adoption of new silica rules
Date: Dec-19-2014
WASHINGTON D.C. – The process of adopting a new OSHA standard for reducing worker exposure to silica drags on, and on and on…. Within the building trades, getting a new,...
Good news for construction tempered by scarce work in infrastructure
Date: Dec-19-2014
Just when you thought it was safe to declare that the U.S. construction industry is on the road to recovery… Well, it probably still is, but this is usually not...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-19-2014
Wages, supposedly, are headed upward Wages among U.S. workers in general and the construction industry specifically are apparently going to start rising: which is what most economic models say they should...
Prevailing wage, 'community benefits' spared, for now
Date: Dec-19-2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A small attachment to a large $1.1 trillion spending package which passed Congress this month could be the first step toward improving protections for financially troubled multiemployer...
Trades provide a facelift for GM's historic birthplace
Date: Dec-19-2014
BAC LOCAL 2 member John Hejnosz does some fine work tuck-pointing brick at the Durant-Dort Carriage Co. preservation project in Flint. FLINT – General Motors is giving its birthplace a...
All set: steel’s up at GM Flint Assembly Paint Shop
Date: Dec-05-2014
All of the structural steel is up – the last of about 10,000 tons – creating the framework for the massive new GM Flint Assembly Paint Shop. Iron Workers from...
Always low wages: Walmart workers deserve better
Date: Dec-05-2014
Thanksgiving Day is a holiday where family and friends gather together and express gratitude for everything in their lives. But those who work at Walmart have little to be thankful...
Congress dithers with pension reform's 'ticking time bomb'
Date: Dec-05-2014
WASHINGTON - The year-end clock is ticking for the so-called "Do-Nothing Congress," and building trades pension plan stakeholders are among those pressing for federal lawmakers to follow a labor-management plan...