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Your health and safety matters…Since you're not stronger than dirt, make trench safety a priority
Date: May-02-2003
At 2,700 lbs., a Volkswagen Beetle might be one of the lightest cars on the road. But you still wouldn't want one falling on your head. The same theory applies...
American Axle's headquarters campus rolls toward completion
Date: Apr-18-2003
Construction work is starting to gear down on the seven-story, 252,000-square-foot American Axle and Manufacturing (AAM) headquarters building in Detroit. A short ceremony on March 31 marked the beginning of...
Building trades have an 'in' at MeadWestvaco outage
Date: Apr-18-2003
ESCANABA - With a soft employment outlook for the building trades in the Upper Peninsula, it's good to have "steady Eddie" employers that keep the paychecks coming in. One of...
Building trades support the troops
Date: Apr-18-2003
WASHINGTON - The Governing Board of Presidents of the AFL-CIO Building Trades Department expressed support for the U.S. troops serving in the Persian Gulf during the group's annual legislative conference...
Can't help falling…You can, with a good safety plan, well-fitting harness
Date: Apr-18-2003
"Careful out there!" It's a safe bet that many construction workers hear a form of that admonition by a spouse or loved one every day before they leave for work...
Delegates seek to overcome prevailing wage protests, start construction spending
Date: Apr-18-2003
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Armed with arguments showing construction projects immediately put people to work, 2,578 delegates from the nation's building trades unions headed for Capitol Hill April 7-9 to lobby...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Apr-18-2003
Anti-union rules irk some in GOP WASHINGTON (PAI) - Twenty-six GOP House members are asking Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to dump union reporting rules that would cost organized labor millions...
Work stoppages a thing of the past
Date: Apr-18-2003
The argument that the potential for strikes is a hindrance to hiring union workers took another blow last month, as the Labor Department reported that major work stoppages in the...
As new HQ goes up, Carhartt doesn't wear thin with building trades
Date: Apr-04-2003
For more than a century, building trades workers have been the backbone of the customer base for Carhartt, a leading manufacturer of quality work clothes. Now, Carhartt is returning the...
General contractors get amnesty from court
Date: Apr-04-2003
A Michigan general contractor was held not liable for on-the-job injuries suffered by an employee of a subcontractor, in a case published Jan. 28. The case involved an apprentice carpenter...