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Large Building Addition For Skilled Trades Training Approved In Howell Township A local organization specializing in training workers for the skilled trades has been given the green light to add a large expansion to their facility. Operating Engineers Local 324 received site plan approval for a 17,500 square foot addition All Posts, News Article

Local Operating Engineers Host Construction Career Day A two-day event in Howell Township will bring over 2,600 high school students from across the state to learn about skilled trade opportunities. Construction Career Day was held Thursday and again today at the Operating Engineers Local 324 Training and Education Center off All Posts, News Article

The WILS Morning Wake-Up w/Dave Akerly talks Construction Career Days with John Hartwell http://1320wils.com/podcasts/the-wils-morning-wake-up?play_file=68548   All Posts, News Article

Operating Engineers 324 LMEC Executive Director Lee Graham talks Construction Career Days http://www.wphm.net/episode/april-30-lee-graham/ All Posts, News Article

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

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 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

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

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

GLADSTONE, Mich. (WLUC) – Wednesday night Operating Engineers 324 held an open house at their training facility in Gladstone. Sponsored by Gladstone and Rapid River schools, the goal is to show students their career options and the availability of training on a local level. Rapid River / Gladstone Superintendent Jay All Posts, News Article