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NEWS BRIEFS

Date: Dec-08-2000

Employers get a break; Workers get the shaft "Michigan to slice state jobless taxes in 2001 - Employers to save $200 million," trumpeted a recent press release from the state...

Political course likely to stay in the middle

Date: Dec-08-2000

We still didn't know at press time who the next president will be, but it's not difficult to speculate what our nation's capital will be like given the evenly divided...

Privatization plan is latest threat to prevailing wage

Date: Dec-08-2000

LANSING - In the months before the Nov. 7 general election, there were dire predictions from leaders in the Democratic Party about the consequences of not bringing a democratic majority...

Trades establish rushing game to build Ford Field by next year

Date: Dec-08-2000

Faster than Desmond Howard returns kickoffs, the building trades and construction manager Hunt-Jenkins are moving on an accelerated schedule to complete Ford Field, the new home of the Detroit Lions....

Air ride equipped: New overhead tram arrives at Metro

Date: Nov-24-2000

Next stop for the Express Tram system: The new Midfield Terminal at Metro Airport in Romulus. Four 33,000-lb. tram cars were lowered through a 15- by 60-foot hole in the...

Few glad tidings after viewing vote results

Date: Nov-24-2000

There isn't much reason for optimism about the direction of our state or our nation after the Nov. 7 election. For the next two years, at least, the State of...

New focus on 'appalling' hazard: silica dust

Date: Nov-24-2000

It's not every week or even every year that a national publication devotes so much attention to a serious medical problem that affects building trades workers. So it was good...

News Briefs

Date: Nov-24-2000

73 pints after 636 blood drive The American Red Cross tapped into a blood drive sponsored by Pipe Fitters, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Service Local 636 and yielded 73 pints...

The real winner: special interests

Date: Nov-24-2000

Congratulations, America. We did it. In the Nov. 7 election, our nation's voters managed to make an election so close for the presidency and in both house of Congress that...

Trades salute 3 retirees

Date: Nov-24-2000

The Detroit Building Trades on Nov. 2 honored three retired labor leaders who left a legacy of good service to unionism. During a luncheon at the Gaelic League in Detroit,...