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'Waiting week' kills enthusiasm for hike in jobless benefits
Date: Feb-04-2002
LANSING -News reports in January touted that House Republican lawmakers who control the state legislature finally opened up their hearts - and state coffers - to provide relief to Michigan's...
Jobless workers, rights of voters are maligned in Michigan
Date: Jan-18-2002
By Tim Hughes Michigan AFL-CIO Legislative Director LANSING - Partisan politics hit the fan in the closing days of the 2001 legislative session as Republican lawmakers and the Governor attacked...
Muddy Rochester village takes shape
Date: Jan-18-2002
The "Village of Rochester Hills" is coming out of the muck and mire at Adams and Walton roads, and it won't be long before a new streetscape is in place...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jan-18-2002
Bush rescinds responsibility rule When it comes to presidential executive orders, what Bill Clinton giveth, President Bush can taketh away. In the Dec. 27 "Federal Register," the Bush Administration cancelled...
State's construction fatality rate up, but injury rate is trending lower
Date: Jan-18-2002
Fatal accidents involving construction workers in Michigan took another jump up in 2001, as 28 construction workers were killed on the job, according to figures released by the state Department...
Trades appeal for help to ease nonunion grip on Borgess Medical Center
Date: Jan-18-2002
KALAMAZOO - Underway at Borgess Medical Center is one of the largest construction projects in Western Michigan - but union building trades are expected to make up only 25 percent...
Union skills expand Wal-Mart
Date: Jan-18-2002
MARQUETTE - The first major expansion of the first Wal-Mart in the Upper Peninsula is going union - mostly. The vehemently anti-union retailer is in the process of expanding its...
Higher health care costs prescribed for 2002
Date: Jan-04-2002
By Phillip L. Polakoff, M.D. Take a close look at this year's calendar. That pair of 2s, one each at either end of 2002, could well stand for the double-digit...
Michigan has its own Vietnam Memorial
Date: Jan-04-2002
Michigan owes a debt of gratitude to its 2,654 residents who were killed in the Vietnam War. Now, a permanent memorial is in place in Lansing to honor their memory....
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jan-04-2002
AFL-CIO faces deficits, hiring freeze LAS VEGAS (PAI)--Facing estimated combined deficits of $12 million in the next two years, the AFL-CIO is instituting a variety of cost-cutting measures, including a...