Underground, beneath the paths students are taking to walk to class on a typical Monday, the classrooms they are studying in, and the 175-foot-tall University of Detroit Mercy Memorial Tower that announces the venerable institution to the world, Cameron Gardner is in a tunnel. Gardner is an Operating Engineers 324 member and plumber, and he
Michigan road worker deaths rise in 2020 as families grapple with ‘devastation’ left in their wake More road workers killed in 2020 than 2019 while traffic volumes were lower https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/05/michigan-road-worker-deaths-rise-in-2020-as-families-grapple-with-devastation-left-in-their-wake.html By Marie Weidmayer | mweidmay@mlive.com Dolores and Nick Male watched as their youngest son, Joaquin, played with his yo-yo on Christmas morning. The child, 7
The first case of COVID-19 in Michigan was reported on March 10. Rapidly, things changed for everyone in the state, and Operating Engineers 324 members were no exception. As schools were cancelled and restaurants closed, many projects were temporarily stopped, and workers asked to wait out the pandemic. Many others were deemed “essential workers,” from
Working to beat “A Hundred-Year Storm” The scenes were dramatic – a freeway flooded with water up to 14 feet deep. Cars, submerged, their drivers having to climb out to safety. A torrential late summer downpour had caused several Metro Detroit roads and freeways to fill with water, but none so drastic or dangerously as
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