Working Class Heroes

11/02/2019

Working Class Heroes

02/08/2019

Tuscola County Veterans Affairs

Career opportunity!

01/15/2019

Who are you???

I violently agree with this. Get to creating.

01/05/2019

Survey: Salaries for many construction trades on the rise

"The 2018 survey shows average annual salaries for 32 categories of workers, with project managers ($92,523) and project supervisors ($88,355) making the most money. The next highest salaries went to combo welders ($71,067), instrumentation technicians ($70,080), pipe welders ($69,222), power line workers ($68,262), industrial electricians ($67,269), millwrights ($66,919), tower crane operators ($66,329) and mobile crane operators ($66,119). All in all, there were 19 positions that earned an average salary of $60,000 or more."

The report shows average annual salaries for 32 categories of workers, with project managers ($92,523) and project supervisors ($88,355) making the most money.

11/17/2018

There's always more that can be done

Be strategic. Don't just keep running a play that isn't working. But if you want to get ahead, do more. Try more. Learn more. Push harder. Work longer. Dream big and execute bigger. That's the way forward.

11/08/2018

Joe Rogan Questions Everything

Fascinating

#JRE http://bit.ly/2EFm4Ip

11/04/2018

DTE Energy tells new regional authority it may want 3 million gallons of Lake Huron water daily

The beginning of a downward spiral 2011-

" DTE Energy is interested in purchasing as much as 3 million gallons of water daily from the Karegnondi Water Authority, the regional consortium that's pushing plans to build the pipeline, according to county Drain Commissioner Jeff Wright."
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#Flintwatercrisis #PureMichigan #water #elonmusk #greatlakesstate #freshwater #lead

Before the first shovel of dirt is turned to build a new water pipeline to Lake Huron, there's already a potential VIP customer waiting in the wings.

10/29/2018

Logistics provider, manufacturer to invest $75 million in Southeast Michigan

Coyote, a Chicago-based transportation management services company owned by UPS Inc., is planning a capital investment of up to $3.6 million in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood. Having outgrown its current facility in Ann Arbor, the company plans to lease an existing building to create 300 new jobs. Coyote primarily recruits recent college graduates.

The Michigan Strategic Fund's board approved grants and tax breaks to two companies that would create 800 new jobs in the region.

10/22/2018

Southeast Mich. attracts $13M in business expansions

More great jobs for Michigan

The state of Michigan grants $1.5 million to Healthmark Industries and Location Services for creation of 245 jobs in Fraser and Pittsfield Township

10/08/2018

Ford, an Automaker at a Crossroads, Seeks Cuts and Partners

“The foundation of Ford — the trucks — is still healthy, but there are concerns about whether Ford has prepared for tomorrow and the future,” said Karl Brauer, executive publisher of the auto information providers Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book. “Ford hasn’t been effective enough in convincing investors that they are.”

With its stock at its lowest point since 2009, the company plans to trim its salaried work force and is exploring an alliance with Volkswagen.

10/02/2018

Gretchen Whitmer, Flint Mayor Karen Waver to join workers’ Fight for $15 strike in Flint

Following Tuesday’s strike, fast-food and other local union and nonunion workers will launch a 2018 election canvass aimed at knocking on hundreds of thousands of doors in Michigan to elect candidates at the local, state and federal level in November who will use their power to make it easier for workers to win a union.

FLINT, Mich. --Hundreds of fast food workers will be taking to the streets Tuesday morning as they fight to be paid $15 an hour, according to a news release. Gretchen Whitmer and Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, along with four Flint city council members, will join cooks and cashiers on the strike line in....

09/28/2018

Believe in yourself.

09/27/2018

📊💻Here is a great example of why data and technology are truly taking things to the next level. Linkedin had this article on Detroit Workforce trends and here are a few screenshots of the report in a short slideshow.

09/27/2018

Union blasts decision to bring in out-of-state workers to build roads

Local 324's five-year contract expired in June but the union workers stayed on their jobs until Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association, which represents the contractors, imposed a work stoppage on Sept. 4.
The local has said it does not want to negotiate a new contract with MITA. The union said it preferred to bargain with individual contractors.

Union spokesman blasts decision to bring in out of state contractors to work on roads during impasse

09/27/2018

Cadillac moving headquarters to Warren

Cadillac moved to New York four years ago in search of a new start for a brand that was failing to appeal to a new generation of luxury buyers — and to create distance between GM's luxury marque and its mainstream siblings. But on the onset of an ambitious product launch schedule, Cadillac is shrinking that distance to put its team closer to the engineering and design hub at the Warren Technical Center.

Cadillac's headquarters is heading back home, but will keep some "brand presence" at Cadillac House in New York's SoHo neighborhood

09/25/2018

Non-union workers to restart road construction in Michigan

The Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association has announced that non-union workers will replace union workers to continue construction on Michigan's roads.

This resolution came hours after Gov. Rick Snyder announced Tuesday a solution still had not been reached in the road building dispute between union members and contractors.

The Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association has announced that non-union workers will replace union workers to continue construction on Michigan's roads. 

09/25/2018

Gov. Rick Snyder: still no deal on road construction stoppage

Several major projects across the state have been brought to complete stop as the lockout dragged on, including the massive 696 reconstruction, 75 bridge projects, and roughly 150 other projects.

Michael Nystrom, executive vice president of MITA said the lockout is a result of "coercive, disruptive and unlawful activities the union has spearheaded against MITA contractors." Nystrom said that the lockout will end when the union ratifies the proposed contract which increases wages and benefits by $8 per hour, or 14.4 percent over five years to $63.67 per hour.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was hopeful Tuesday morning to announce an update on the ongoing lockout with the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association (MITA) and the road workers union - but three weeks after the stoppage, nothing has changed.

09/20/2018

State working to end 'unacceptable standoff' over road projects

The Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association instituted the work stoppage on Sept. 4 after multiple failed attempts to bargain a new contract with the Operating Engineers Local 324. A prior, five-year deal expired in June.

State in talks with union, industry contractors to stop 'unacceptable standoff' over road work

09/19/2018

How fungi could save the world

Beautiful solutions!

From devouring pollution to fighting disease, ten reasons fungi leave other organisms in the shade.

09/19/2018

Microsoft is upping its A.I. battle with Salesforce

Microsoft introduced Dynamics 365 AI for Customer Service and Dynamics 365 AI for Market Insights at an event in San Francisco. The former will highlight existing and emerging issues that agents face and help with the deployment of chatbots that can handle inquiries. The latter is meant to help marketers see what people are talking about on channels like social networks.

Microsoft is coming out with easy-to-use software to make sense of incoming customer-service inquiries and respond to questions.

09/17/2018

👷‍♂️👷‍♀️The future of construction-
Think mindfully with material as well! Quite literally building the future.

09/16/2018

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Time to do something- starting with perspective.

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09/15/2018

How will 5G revolutionise the manufacturing sector?

A subset of Industry 4.0 is smart manufacturing, defined by The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as systems that are “fully-integrated, collaborative manufacturing systems that respond in real time to meet changing demands and conditions in the factory, in the supply network, and in customer needs.”
This strategic application of technology is making the manufacturing process increasingly intelligent and dynamic, allowing the concept of smart factories to become a reality.

The successful adoption of new technologies into the manufacturing sector depends on the rise of 5G, according to Brendan Lynch

09/14/2018

Fix MI State

What can we do for solutions?

Michigan, we have a safe drinking water problem. This National Drinking Water Week help us share the real story about Michigan’s failing infrastructure. #FixMIState #DrinkingWaterWeek

09/14/2018

⚠️The half-life of a skill is decreasing as the increasingly integrated 🤖technology gives access to new information. Businesses in all industries will need to be proactive and innovative with 📚skill-building within their organization to succeed and have higher employee retention.

❓❔ Question to ask right now: Do you have a plan for talent development? 📋📈👇

♾Make lifelong learning the mindset♾

09/13/2018

Conversation about future jobs often reflect fear of "robots replacing humans at work".
🤖With automation and AI, integration is everywhere and will create job shifts. Do you know what jobs are affected first? Do you know where new opportunities will be?
💯Ignorance is not the solution. Join Working Class Heroes in building a better future through collaboration and information sharing. DO SOMETHING about your future.

09/13/2018

"If not me, then who? If not now, when?"
- the mentality of next gen leaders

09/13/2018

Michigan- You're failing.

#ASCEMIReportCard #PureMichigan #infrastructure #fail #planning #4IR #evolve
⚠️The importance of prioritizing infrastructure and filling the talent gaps is life changing for our future. We can do better.

09/12/2018

Working Class Heroes

09/11/2018

Four leadership principles for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

For a prosperous #future, we must ask how all of us, and the technological systems we #design and #build, can serve the proper ends and not be confined to the means. Our efforts must focus on the #impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on human beings, society and the environment, and not just focus on technological progress or economic productivity.

“Leadership in these complex times requires nothing less than a wholesale shift of our mental models,” writes Klaus Schwab.

09/10/2018

🌍It's important to think global perspective with the future of work. (Account for migration!)

Survey shows the majority of people would move to USA for work. We must prepare for and consider this.

👇If you think the future is some vague distant place in time, you're going to be blind-sided by reality very soon. It is not a matter of IF technology and automation replaces jobs, it is a matter of WHICH jobs, WHEN and what that means.

09/09/2018

"Yes, change is the basic law of nature. But the changes wrought by the passage of time affects individuals and institutions in different ways. According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Applying this theoretical concept to us as individuals, we can state that the civilization that is able to survive is the one that is able to adapt to the changing physical, social, political, moral, and spiritual environment in which it finds itself."

- Professor Leon C Megginson
Louisiana State University 1963
Outlining the central idea in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"

09/05/2018

Many Michigan road construction projects halted by lockout of heavy equipment operators

Both sides are dug in. MITA officials said they won't relent until the 2,000 or so operating engineers off the job from Marquette to Monroe accept their contract.
Union officials said MITA refused to negotiate all summer, so they aren't talking now.

Metro Detroiters are willing to deal with the nuisance of a construction project if it means getting a pockmarked road fixed. But now, many orange barrels are remaining on roads without any work going on behind them.

08/24/2018

Initiative Language

🇺🇸CALL TO ACTION!! Did you know that the proposal the legalize marijuana in Michigan which will be on the November ballot includes millions of dollars allocated to research PTSD in our veteran community? This initiative will legalize adult use marijuana for all adults 21 years of age or older, as well as industrial hemp. You can review the full text here:https://www.regulatemi.org/initiative/
The CRMLA Director of Outreach, Lissa Satori, is looking for veterans who are willing to be public in their support of the passage of this proposal in November. Anyone willing to write letters to editors, be present at press conferences to show support, allow your image or a quotation to be used, or even be in a video is encouraged to contact her ASAP at:[email protected]

We are all painfully aware of the high rate of veteran suicides and the challenges of PTSD. Here’s our chance to help make a difference.


Michigan Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol

✌Or message Hether Zeckser to learn more about how you can help and be involved!

https://www.regulatemi.org/

The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is a committee formed to support a 2018 ballot initiative to end marijuana prohibition in Michigan and establish a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol.

08/20/2018

Tom Bilyeu

Be extraordinary, don't worry about whether the system is broken or not.
-Tom Bilyeu

There’s only one thing standing in the way of you achieving your goals. Watch and find out what it is.