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Workers, company end Salem Twp. landfill strike Charles E. Ramirez, The Detroit News Workers at a Salem Township landfill were back on the job Monday after walking out in a labor dispute last week, according to union and company officials. The two sides hammered out a tentative agreement Friday, ending All Posts, News Article

WHMI 93.5 FM September 29, 2017 Public Gets Look At Training Facility For First Responders In Howell A training center in Howell was opened to the public this week to help prepare first responders for emergency situations. Operating Engineers 324 and their Michigan Urban Search & Rescue, or MUSAR, partners All Posts, News Article

DETROIT METRO TIMES We live in a post-vocational education world. The problem? That same world still needs skilled trades workers. In fact, in a 2015 report on employment and occupations in skilled trades released by the state of Michigan, researchers estimate that by 2022 skilled trades jobs will grow by All Posts, News Article

Operating engineers facility opens in Delta County By Nicole Walton GLADSTONE, MI– Operating Engineers Local 324 has opened a new, 11,000-square-foot training facility in Gladstone. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the 5.5-acre facility for workers such as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, and stationary engineers was held Friday. Officials say the All Posts, News Article

Gladstone welcomes new training facility HALEY GUSTAFSON Staff Writer hgustafson@dailypress.net GLADSTONE — A state of the art training facility for operating engineers opened in Gladstone Friday, with local dignitaries and representatives from the Operating Engineers 324 (OE324) performing a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour of the building to commemorate the occasion. All Posts, News Article

Detroit is a city on the move. There’s a reason people across the country are talking about Detroit’s comeback. New restaurants, entertainment venues and housing complexes are opening all the time. Detroit is truly the place to be. But we know all the progress in the world means nothing if All Posts, News Article

Helmets to Hardhats connects veterans to construction trades This summer, Michigan lawmakers stood up for our veterans looking for work when they approved funding for a statewide program that helps our service men and women find jobs in the building trades. The recently bolstered Helmets to Hardhats program is an All Posts, News Article

Senate Republicans on Thursday, July 13, 2017 unveiled a new proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.   Today, Flint-area Congressman Dan Kildee and Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, Joe Crowley made stops in both Howell and Flint to discuss that bill, and if passed, how it All Posts, News Article

  SALEM (WWJ) – A couple dozen picketers grabbed signs and marched outside the Arbor Hills Landfill on Napier Road in Washtenaw County to demonstrate their solidarity and to ask for better wages.   Tom Scott, spokesperson for Operating Engineers Local 324, said they want better wages from the company All Posts, News Article

Crain’s Detroit Business Operating Engineers 324 to host open house for job training program By TYLER CLIFFORD International Union of Operating Engineers 324 is hosting an open house Friday to show off and attract prospective students to its Detroit training labs and career facility. Spokesperson Alan Fosnacht said the union All Posts, News Article

Union pickets EPA river cleanup BY RYAN LEWIS EDITOR The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 324 is hoping to draw attention to the fact that the Kalamazoo River cleanup effort is using Montana-based Envirocon instead of Michigan contractors. Several of the union’s members have begun displaying a banner at All Posts, News Article