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Construction employment, spending, up to start 2020
Date: Mar-20-2020
U.S. construction employment increased by 42,000 jobs in February and by 223,000 or 3.0 percent over the past 12 months, as the industry’s unemployment rate hit a new February low,...
Mackinac Straits Line 5 tunnel plans on course, Enbridge says
Date: Mar-20-2020
LANSING - The $500 million Great Lakes Tunnel Project under the Straits of Mackinac has completed its geological core sampling phase, is on course for completion in 2024, and will...
New McLaren hospital on the rise in Lansing
Date: Mar-20-2020
A NEW $450 MILLION hospital campus for McLaren Health Care is going up near the Michigan State University campus in south Lansing. It’s part of a 39-acre campus that will...
News Briefs
Date: Mar-20-2020
Normal? Now, nothing is normal. The presence of the coronavirus in the U.S. has lead to stern medical warnings to wash our hands, avoid touching our face, and isolate from...
Saved! Deluge of public comments sustain trades' apprenticeship programs
Date: Mar-20-2020
WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. Department of Labor issued a long-awaited rule on March 10 that could have had a devastating impact on the future of union-sector construction training programs....
State's new labor agency chief: 'organized labor helped build the middle class'
Date: Mar-20-2020
LANSING - The Whitmer Administration obviously thinks "labor" and "economic opportunity" can complement each other. That's because both terms appear in the name of same state agency that Gov. Gretchen...
Unions have one of our own at state labor agency
Date: Mar-20-2020
LANSING - Like the country song goes, it's good to have friends in low places. But it's good to have them in higher places, too. For organized labor in Michigan,...
Whitmer to building trades: ‘We put labor back where it belongs with a real seat at the table’
Date: Mar-20-2020
LANSING - Following are a selection of remarks made by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council Legislative Conference delegates on March 3 in Lansing. The building...
A classic, restored: WSU's Chatsworth Tower readied for next generation
Date: Mar-06-2020
DETROIT - All college campuses should have at least one Chatsworth Tower. An historic building that's imposing, makes an architectural statement, and provides a sense of generational permanence to residents...
Big pension challenges remain on Capitol Hill
Date: Mar-06-2020
By Jim Kolb The Association of Union Constructors (TAUC) The first session of the 116th Congress ended with a flurry of activity in December. While much of the focus was...