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# Roadwork In Metro Detroit Hits A Roadblock
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/roadwork-in-metro-detroit-hits-a-roadblock/
- Published: 2018-09-05T09:42:05.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-27T19:50:14.000Z
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12, #daily-detroit-staff

On our show last week before the Labor Day weekend we told you about a lockout dispute affecting members of a labor union that represents road and bridge construction workers. Now, that lockout has put a freeze on dozens of road construction projects across Michigan.

The Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association represents road-building contractor firms and called the lockout. They’ve been in a dispute with Operating Engineers Local 324 ever since a five-year contract expired in June.

The union has been unhappy with MITA over its insistence that contractors don’t have to pay union-level benefits to non-union subcontractors. So they’ve been trying to negotiate directly with the contractors represented by the association.

The stoppage has affected major road repair projects including the I-75 River Rouge Bridge, I-696 reconstruction and some bridge reconstruction projects on I-96\. It’s not known how long the work stoppages will last.