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Nifty Fifty - Tradesman paper survives industry's ups and downs to reach half-century
Date: Jan-04-2002
The first issue of The Building Tradesman was dated on Jan. 11, 1952 - historically when the strength of the U.S. labor movement was at its greatest. Publication of the...
Safe2Work wins major endorsements
Date: Jan-04-2002
By John Hamilton President, Greater Detroit Building Trades Council Professionals from all over Michigan's construction industry gathered during the Dec. 14 meeting of the Great Lakes Construction Alliance to review...
Tradesman to 'promote the general welfare of the construction industry worker'
Date: Jan-04-2002
Published in the 1952 Volume 1, Issue 1 of The Building Tradesman, this column outlined the newly formed paper's objectives. The establishment of a medium of information and education for...
Trades prep Detroit Statler Hotel for an uncertain future
Date: Jan-04-2002
Detroit's long-shuttered Statler Hilton Hotel was not the city's largest, tallest, nor the most architecturally interesting building - but for much of the 20th Century, the half-million square-foot behemoth anchored...
A safer site for workers the goal of U-M program
Date: Dec-21-2001
Editor's note - This article was prepared by the University of Michigan Trauma Burn Center Trauma is a substantial contributor to death and injury on the job. It is one...
Bush's appeal of PLA decision bolsters friendship with ABC
Date: Dec-21-2001
Early in his administration, President George W. Bush issued an Executive Order prohibiting union labor agreements on federally funded construction projects. On Nov. 7, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan...
Consumers Energy new HQ: two buildings for the price of one
Date: Dec-21-2001
JACKSON - By springtime of 2003, some 1,500 Consumers Energy employees will be working in a new headquarters building that's being constructed downtown - and as part of the construction...
Decision on Carpenters' link with AFL-CIO due in mid-January
Date: Dec-21-2001
LAS VEGAS (PAI)--A final decision on whether the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners will return to the AFL-CIO will come by mid-January, union officials attending the AFL-CIO convention in...
Lions score with new practice facility
Date: Dec-21-2001
If the play of the Detroit Lions doesn't improve next year, it won't be because of their beautiful new practice facility, which is set to open in March. The Lions...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-21-2001
Fast Track passed in House One of organized labor's least favorite topics - granting Fast Track trade authority to President Bush - took a big step forward Dec. 6 when...