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Colleagues mourn loss of police Commissioner Sanders Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Derrick Sanders served on the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority board. An earlier version misidentified the board on which he served. Detroit — Friends and colleagues of Detroit police Commissioner Derrick B. Sanders were mourning All Posts, News Article

Detroit Police Commissioner Derrick Sanders dies unexpectedly over weekend By Gus Burns fburns@mlive.com Detroit Police Commissioner Derrick B. Sanders, 59, died unexpectedly Saturday, March 31. Sanders, who worked as a business agent and trustee for the Operating Engineers 324 labor union, began serving as an at-large member of the police All Posts, News Article

Operating Engineers 324 apprentice Joe Prusi named Apprentice of the Year The Upper Peninsula Construction Council named U.P. apprentice Joe Prusi their Apprentice of the Year HOWELL, Mich. – The Operating Engineers 324 (OE324) is proud to announce apprentice Joe Prusi was named Apprentice of the Year by the Upper All Posts, Press Release

ENGINEERS NEWS – SPRING 2018 – Anyone paying a visit to the Operating Engineers 324 Construction Career Center in Howell this winter would have caught a striking, maybe even surprising sight: dozens of apprentices and journeymen filling classrooms and the seats of more equipment than ever before. In the midst All Posts, News Article

Prevailing Wage Preservation Effort Ropes In Veterans MIRS News, 2/27/18 About 20 veterans from Michigan’s skilled workforce lobbied lawmakers today with a message for lawmakers: “A vote against prevailing wage is a vote against high-quality jobs that allow veterans to support themselves and their families.” As the Bureau of Elections All Posts, News Article

Veterans to Lansing: prevailing wage protects our jobs Veterans in Michigan’s building trades urge lawmakers to support good jobs for veterans and protect prevailing wage LANSING- Veterans from Michigan’s skilled workforce arrived in Lansing today with a single message for lawmakers: a vote against prevailing wage is a vote against All Posts, Press Release

Veterans speak out about prevailing wages in Lansing LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – A group of Veterans gathered in Lansing Tuesday to speak out about and support the prevailing wage vote. Veterans from three skilled trade unions talked at a press conference at the Michigan Senate building on Tuesday morning. Their All Posts, News Article

Review of anti-prevailing wage ballot petition reveals signature shortfall Examination of more than 4,000 signatures finds there are not enough valid signatures to place a repeal on the ballot   LANSING – A thorough, independent review shows there are not enough signatures to place a petition to repeal Michigan’s prevailing All Posts, Press Release

Unions Say Prevailing Wage Repeal Still Falls Short Of Approval MIRS, 2/14/18 A union-backed group has again challenged the signatures for the prevailing wage repeal initiative petition, this time saying the campaign is short the signatures it needs to be on the Nov. 6 ballot. John PIRICH and Andrea HANSEN, All Posts, News Article

Report: Prevailing wage repeal hurts skilled workforce, construction economy A new study of Indiana’s prevailing wage repeal shows the repeal hurt state’s economy, workforce LANSING – A recent, in-depth and non-partisan impact study found Indiana’s 2015 repeal of the prevailing wage reduced worker pay and didn’t save taxpayers money on All Posts, Press Release

The Bureau of Elections will review more than 4,000 of the signatures filed to repeal the prevailing wage law after the Board of State Canvassers unanimously rejected a request by petition sponsor Protecting Michigan Taxpayers to revive enough of the signatures in the smaller sample to put the measure on All Posts, News Article