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ABC to take Lansing prevailing wage case to Supreme Court
Date: Aug-01-2014
LANSING – With the majority of the Michigan Supreme Court justices being sympathetic to right-wing conservatives, it comes as no surprise that the anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors is bringing...
'Choppy' construction industry advances
Date: Aug-01-2014
Michigan joined 38 other states which saw construction employment increase in the month of June compared to June 2013. Despite a 1.2 percent drop in construction employment from May to...
Expanded Poletown plant will help GM logistically
Date: Aug-01-2014
DETROIT – General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant is undergoing its first major expansion since it opened in 1985. Built on a 365-acre site, GM’s “Poletown” plant is currently undergoing an...
Lamar Construction's closure creates organizing opportunity
Date: Aug-01-2014
Lamar Construction Co., a large, long-time nonunion contractor headquartered in Hudsonville in west Michigan , abruptly closed its doors on July 9, throwing about 280 workers onto the jobless rolls....
News Briefs
Date: Aug-01-2014
Road funding headed for lame duck? With state lawmakers timid about initiating any sort of tax increase during an election year – even to repair Michigan’s crumbling roads – the state...
Steel's up quickly, at Quicken
Date: Aug-01-2014
The Quicken Loans Data Center’s structural steel was topped out July 11, as Iron Workers Local 25 members, above, and Sterling Erectors moved quickly to make the building ready for...
The doctor will see you now at Local 98's union hall
Date: Aug-01-2014
MADISON HTS. – The doctor is in. At the union hall. Plumbers Local 98 has joined those forward thinking building trades unions on the cutting edge that take control of...
Construction industry is still a man's world
Date: Jul-18-2014
WASHINGTON D.C. – Women represent nearly half of the U.S. labor force, but hold only 2.6 percent of construction jobs, according to a report released last month by the National...
Government austerity is a tangible job killer
Date: Jul-18-2014
The release of monthly U.S. employment reports are one of the best barometers of the health of the U.S. economy – and June’s report, issued in the first week of July,...
IBEW Local 131's Buskirk seeks state House seat
Date: Jul-18-2014
KALAMAZOO – “Let’s stop talking about electing people who support organized labor. Let’s start talking about electing me, because I am organized labor.” So says Dave Buskirk, a 45-year member...