LANSING - Michigan's 53-year-old law requiring union scale wages to be paid to workers on public construction projects is no more after the Republican-majority Legislature passed the initiated legislation, accompanied by multiple chants and outbursts in the House by Democrats and furious construction workers who packed the gallery. The Senate voted largely along party lines,
LANSING - If the state ends its prevailing wage statute, it will not save money as supporters argue, a group of construction and union executives said on Monday. In fact, repealing prevailing wage would make it more difficult to hire skilled trades workers, and eventually any savings would be negated because costs will go up,
DEARBORN - Amatrol, Seabery, and Applied Technology Systems, their sole Michigan distributor, have been awarded a $338,000.00 contract by Henry Ford Community College to deliver pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, and welding simulation equipment and curriculum materials as the first phase of a skilled trades training program at its Dearborn Campus. The funding for this training program
