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
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
On April 21, WJR’s Building Michigan show discussed the Operating Engineers Apprenticeship Application, and talked to OE324 Career & Outreach Coordinator John Hartwell, and Apprenticeship Coordinator Steve McFarland. They we’re joined by OE324 Business Representative and Stationary Engineer Ron Heurtebise, and Stationary Engineer Cameron Gardiner to talk about about careers, and how these essential workers
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