Operating Engineers sign new pact with state of Michigan to boost worker and workplace safety HOWELL, Mich. – Operating Engineers 324 and the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration has extended their relationship by signing a new three-year agreement to collaborate closely on ways to boost worker health and safety as well as ensure safer
While Michigan workers sit idled by COVID-19, out-of-state company cashes in MT. PLEASANT, Michigan – While thousands of Michigan skilled tradesmen and women are unemployed, honoring the state’s “Stay-At-Home” COVID-19 edict, work on a Michigan wind farm deemed essential is exploiting out-of-state workers to capitalize on profits, putting residents at risk, Operating Engineers 324 said
Operating Engineers 324 endorses Detroit Institute of Arts millage on ballot DETROIT, Michigan – Operating Engineers 324 is endorsing a renewal millage in support of the Detroit Institute of Arts, slated for the ballot today, March 10. The question asks voters in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties to renew 0.2 mills that would pay for
Operating Engineers praises Whitmer’s budget and road fix, calls on Legislature to find long-term solution HOWELL, Mich. – Operating Engineers OE324 today praised Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s budget and called her proposal to jumpstart more than 120 major road construction projects statewide an investment in Michigan’s future. Approved by the Michigan Transportation Commission on Jan. 30,
Operating Engineers 324 today applauded Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s vetoing of several items in the submitted 2019 Transportation budget that would have drastically impacted the state’s ability to move forward on infrastructure. This includes the veto of a section added to the boilerplate language that would have prohibited MDoT from awarding road contracts to union contractors