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Operating Engineers 324 celebrates Detroit high school graduates of groundbreaking construction program DETROIT – Operating Engineers 324 hosted family, friends and students as well as workers and businesses in the skilled trades industry in celebrating high school students who graduated from a 16-week pre-apprenticeship program. Now in its fourth year, All Posts, Press Release

Operating Engineers 324, Fenton schools partner to learn about pathway to good skilled careers HOWELL, MI –Operating Engineers 324 spent a day with Fenton Area Public Schools administrators and shared ways to prepare students for careers in the skilled trades, especially as operating engineers who build and maintain critical infrastructure. All Posts, Press Release

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 All Posts, Press Release

Operating engineers protest against contractor that cheated workers Indiana company faces charges of unfair labor practices HOWELL, Mich. – Observing recommended COVID-19 precautions and practicing social distancing, Operating Engineer 324 members have resumed picketing a construction company that faces charges of mistreating its workers, and demanded Rieth-Riley Construction resume negotiating All Posts, Press Release

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 All Posts, News Article

Operating Engineers 324 Director joins Gov. Whitmer’s jobs development board to help boost skilled trades opportunities BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Lee Graham, Executive Director of OE324’s Labor Management Education Committee, has been appointed to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s newly created Michigan Workforce Development Board to help increase growth and new opportunities in the All Posts, Press Release

The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) has recently been the target of fraudulent activity, forcing them to take precautions to further secure payments. While no data has been stolen from the agency, some workers currently unemployed may receive a “Stop Payment” notification in their account. It will be accompanied by All Posts, Announcement

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 All Posts, News Article

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, All Posts, News Article

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 All Posts, Press Release

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer today announced new programs for workers affected by COVID-19. The governor, under the federal CARES Act, signed an agreement between Michigan and the U.S. Dept. of Labor to implement Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Compensation programs that grant benefits to workers who do not already qualify for state All Posts, Announcement

OE324 Notice regarding Michigan “Stay-At-Home” Order Today, Governor Whitmer announced the signing of Executive Order 2020-21, which orders that the majority of Michigan residents remain in their homes temporarily (three weeks), unless carrying out tasks necessary for sustaining or protecting life.  For those working in those “critical infrastructure” fields (which All Posts, Announcement