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NEWS BRIEFS
Date: May-10-2002
Union members urged to re-subscribe The bitter five-and-a-half year labor dispute between the Detroit newspapers and their union employees was brought to a conclusion in December 2000, but thousands of...
Peaker plants boost employment; add to nation's power capacity, too
Date: May-10-2002
EAST CHINA TWP. - More power, produced by a 320-megawatt natural gas-fired plant that's currently under construction, is nearly ready to come on line in Michigan. The electrical production industry...
Borgess continues to snub local trades
Date: Apr-26-2002
KALAMAZOO - The ongoing $76.9 million project to renovate Borgess Medical Center is expected to take three years. And if necessary during that period, local building trades leaders are vowing...
Federal court agrees to hear Dems on Michigan redistricting plan
Date: Apr-26-2002
Was the Republican plan to re-district Michigan's legislative boundaries unconstitutional? And could it delay the state's Aug. 6 primary election? The answer to both of those questions is now in...
Finally - modest increase Ok'd for unemployment insurance
Date: Apr-26-2002
LANSING - It's a sign of the conservative times in our state capital that even in an election year, it was a mighty struggle for Republicans to do the bare...
It's a tight squeeze, but trades fit in nicely with Palmer Drive project
Date: Apr-26-2002
ANN ARBOR - With little room to work in this crowded university town - and virtually no spaces to park their cars -building trades workers and construction manager Barton Malow...
Maddaloni urges solidarity: 'building trades are 'the lifeline of all of our members'
Date: Apr-26-2002
WASHINGTON - In a highly charged atmosphere, with rumors flying about internal union politics at the AFL-CIO Building Trades Department's Legislative Convention, Martin Maddaloni, general president of the United Association...
'Mother Church' undergoes extensive makeover
Date: Apr-26-2002
The Archdiocese of Detroit's "Mother Church" - The Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, is undergoing its most extensive renovation ever. Constructed in 1915 at Woodward and Belmont as a...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Apr-26-2002
Petitions bolster straight-party ballots The Michigan Bureau of Elections has until May 20 to verify 253,321 petition signatures that would kill a new state Republican law which outlaws straight-party voting....
Painters' Monroe blasts BT's Sullivan; no action on UBC re-affiliation
Date: Apr-26-2002
WASHINGTON - Most delegates to the annual AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department's annual legislative conference April 15-18 may have assumed that resolving jurisdictional issues and coming to terms with...