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40 years later, plumber honored for valor in Vietnam
Date: Dec-18-2009
By Doug Allen Battle Creek Shopper News (Reprinted with permission) Robert Dewey Wolford, 62, of Battle Creek recently retired as a plumber and pipefitter with Local 333 after 38 years....
Kissed and coddled, corporations, bankers have rewarded us with the mess that we’re in
Date: Dec-18-2009
By Mark Ayers President, AFL-CIO Building Trades Department I can’t think of anything more heart-wrenching than the idea of trying to celebrate the holiday season when confronted daily with the...
New building, old style at landmark Wards site
Date: Dec-18-2009
DEARBORN – From 1937 until it closed February 2001, the Montgomery Wards store at Michigan Ave. and Schaefer anchored the city’s east-side shopping district. During this decade, several proposals to...
Retirement awaits Michigan Building Trades’ Ed Coffey
Date: Dec-18-2009
Edward M. Coffey, Jr., a fixture as a business representative at the Greater Detroit Building Trades Council and the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council for the last 15 years,...
Face of the U.S. labor movement is changing, report says
Date: Dec-04-2009
The typical union member looks a lot different than he did 25 years ago. And increasingly, it’s a good chance that “he” is a “she.” “The view that the typical...
Full course renovation of Brody Hall in the works
Date: Dec-04-2009
EAST LANSING – A lot of meals move through Michigan State University’s Brody Hall, which at one time was said to provide the largest non-military food service in the nation....
Low wages, union hate sustain nonstop war on workers
Date: Dec-04-2009
By Sean McGarvey Secretary-Treasurer AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department If I asked you to name the longest running war in our nation’s history, what would you say? The Vietnam...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-04-2009
Union leaders sneer at tax on benefits WASHINGTON (PAI) – Union leaders praised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., for crafting a comprehensive 10-year $849 billion health care revision bill...
Steep drop in 2009 for U.S. construction, but hopeful signs sprout
Date: Dec-04-2009
The value of new U.S. construction starts climbed 12% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $447.6 billion, it was reported by McGraw-Hill Construction. However, through the first...
Volunteers provide new home, new start for injured veteran
Date: Dec-04-2009
MACOMB TWP. – Union masons in Southeast Michigan are among scores of tradespeople, contractors and well-wishers helping to build a new home for an Army veteran who lost both...