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Meanwhile, at the nation's largest retailer…
Date: Feb-15-2002
Health care costs up? No problem! Wal Mart suggests tapping 401(k)s Wal-Mart stores have done it again. Just when you think they couldn't possibly add to their reputation as a...
Michigan unions risk loss of market by keeping 'comfortable,'says GP Monroe
Date: Feb-15-2002
Quick quiz - what state is home to thousands of workers who not only wouldn't join a union - but have never even heard of a union? (A) Alabama (B)...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Feb-15-2002
Union construction population higher The percentage of U.S. construction workers who are union members rose slightly in 2001 to 18.4 percent, from 18.3 percent in 2000, according to the U.S....
Painters' 'Southern Initiative' offers lessons for us all
Date: Feb-15-2002
B.J. Cardwell has been a union organizer in Michigan. And over the past year, he has been a union organizer in southern-tier states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee Arkansas and Alabama....
$2.9 billion in jobless money is beginning to stink like hell
Date: Feb-04-2002
"Money is like manure - if you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell." -...
Final destination nears for Midfield Terminal
Date: Feb-04-2002
Ladies and gentlemen, please observe the "fasten your seatbelt sign" - the building trades are preparing to bring the Midfield Terminal in for a landing. Nearly four years after the...
Jewelry drawing raises $7,000
Date: Feb-04-2002
$7,000 WILL HELP FUND the good works at the parishes of St. Rita's and Holy Trinity in Detroit, compliments of Pongracz Jewelers and Point Gemological Laboratory in Grosse Pointe Farms....
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Feb-04-2002
Bubba Chiles' sister needs help Contract settlements in 2001 in the nation's unionized construction industry averaged an increase of $1.37 or 4.5 percent for the first year, the Construction Labor...
Union density unrelated to higher wages, researchers say
Date: Feb-04-2002
Have higher wages in the unionized construction industry led to unions pricing themselves out of some employment markets? That's a widely held belief in many areas of the country. Construction...
Union membership numbers flat in 2001
Date: Feb-04-2002
Union membership in the U.S. remained stable in 2001 despite economic uncertainty and massive layoffs after the events of Sept. 11. According to figures released last month by the Labor...