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EPA and the government partners working on the Enbridge oil spill have received many calls from contractors interested in doing business with the response effort. Businesses currently working at the site are under contract with the agency to perform work under EPA’s Superfund Technical Assistance and Response Team (START) and
You win some, you lose some. That’s what happens in every election and last night was no exception. By now you all know, Virg Bernero and Rick “The Nerd” Snyder are the nominees for governor. On the Democrat side, it looks like the old guard labor union establishment was able
MITA would like to thank all of the 2010 Southeastern Golf Outing Sponsors! This outing could not have been possible without both the golfers and all of the sponsors. MITA hopes to continue this great success in the future, and we hope that you and your organization will be a
TABLE AGREEMENT FOR UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION BETWEEN THE MICHIGAN INFRASTRUCTURE & TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION AND THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 324 1. Clean up grammatical, typographical and references to AUC in the language of the Contract. 2. “During the term of this Agreement, the Union will reallocate money from the
The Roads to Pure Michigan are Pure HELL – check out this silly Pure MI spoof video released today by the Michigan Transportation Team. http://bit.ly/PureHell What can you do now that you watched the video?? – Pass it along to your friends by e-mail, Facebook or Twitter. – Contact your legislator regarding the
Prospects for reauthorization of the federal highway spending bill seem remote given the current climate in Washington. Kenneth Orski, a public policy consultant in Washington wrote a brief analysis that we thought we would share with you. His column underscores the importance of contacting your congressman over the summer break.
Memorandum TO: Contractors Members Signatory to the MITA/Operating Engineers -local 324 Underground Agreements FROM: Michael A. Nystrom, Executive Vice President RE: Collective Bargaining Agreement Negotiations The current Underground Construction Agreement between MITA and the Operating Engineers – Local 324 expires at the end of August, 2010. Therefore, I have
Please be advised that in accordance with the 2008-2013 Agreement between the Labor Relations Division of the Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association and the Michigan Teamsters Joint Council 43 there will be NO wage adjustments on June 1, 2010. The next adjustments will take place on June 1, 2011.
Don’t waste your summer. Educate your local candidates for office about infrastructure issues before the upcoming election. Even if every incumbent running for reelection to the state legislature is successful, over half the legislature will be brand new in January. Now is the time to educate and support pro infrastructure
MDOT continues their focus on prevailing wage compliance. They have asked MITA to distribute the following information as a reminder about the payment of prevailing wages for Truck Drivers. For Federal and State Prevailing Wage Projects When truck drivers are performing work on a project (i.e. moving material from one location
“Item Number 1008 051” in the August 6th Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) letting will be included in a new DBE Solicitation Blue Sheet at Time of Bid Pilot Process. The primary intent of this second DBE solicitation pilot process is to access the pre-bid DBE solicitation efforts of the
This spring the Granholm Administration was floating a plan to use the AUC-backed Proposal 2 bond dollars approved in 2002 as a revenue source for the state’s brownfield clean-up program. While those dollars were meant for sewer infrastructure, the state has borrowed virtually none of that money in the eight
