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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
News Briefs
Date: Oct-24-2014
ABC and GOP should get a room The Associated Builders and Contractors is the arch-enemy of Michigan building trades unions, acting as the primary proponent for keeping industry wages low,...
Totten for state attorney general: he'll take trades' case on prevailing wage
Date: Oct-24-2014
The Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council has endorsed Democrat Mark Totten as he seeks to unseat incumbent Bill Schuette for state attorney general in the Nov. 4 general election....
Vote Nov. 4: Show that labor still has muscles to flex
Date: Oct-24-2014
Your pension. Your health care. Your wage scale. Your workplace safety. Your union. Those things are really what will be on your ballot – should you choose to fill one...
AFL-CIO's Trumka: To avoid an 'ass-kicking,' labor needs to step up its political outreach, big-time
Date: Oct-10-2014
DETROIT – Passage of Michigan’s right-to-work law in 2012 by Gov. Rick Snyder and the Republican Legislature “shivered the timbers of every union in every state,” said AFL-CIO President Rich...
GOP leaders disavow prevailing wage repeal
Date: Oct-10-2014
LANSING – Can the state’s construction industry expect a repeal of the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act this year? Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe) told MIRS News Service on Sept....
I Did Not Crash The Economy. You Didn’t, Either.
Date: Oct-10-2014
If you listen to FOX news, the angry billionaires, and most of the Republican politicians, you’d think that middle class Americans and poor Americans are public enemies. Here’s the reality:...
Masonry work restores state's only aquarium
Date: Oct-10-2014
DETROIT – A modest but important renovation this summer to the exterior of Michigan’s oldest (and only) public aquarium went, shall we say, swimmingly. Contractor Grunwell Cashero on Sept. 2...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-10-2014
U.S. construction rises 5% this year U.S. construction spending climbed to $961 billion from $915.3 billion between August 2013 and August 2014, a 5 percent increase, according to federal data also...
'This election really is about organized people vs. organized money'
Date: Oct-10-2014
LANSING – Michigan AFL-CIO President Karla Swift provided MIRS News Service with some of organized labor’s perspective concerning the Nov. 4 election. Following is a sampling of her comments: On...
News Briefs
Date: Sep-26-2014
RTW push claims 5,000 in MEA The Michigan Education Association (MEA) announced Sept. 4 that fewer than 5,000 of its members opted out of the union during August. The MEA’s rules...