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Plenty of action at FireKeepers casino
Date: Oct-17-2008
BATTLE CREEK - The FireKeepers Casino will be Michigan's next, newest gaming facility, scheduled to open on or about Aug. 20, 2009. Until that happens there's a lot of work...
Energy law to spark billions in power plant construction
Date: Oct-03-2008
LANSING - Billions of dollars in construction activity is expected to be unleashed in Michigan as the result of the Sept. 18 bipartisan passage of three bills that re-regulate the...
Green machine rolls through Michigan
Date: Oct-03-2008
COOPERSVILLE - A mobile classroom mounted on a truck trailer rolled through Michigan recently, showing off environmentally friendly - or green - construction applications for construction workers and the general...
Labor's perspective on Wall Street meltdown
Date: Oct-03-2008
By Harry Kelber We are all in lots of trouble - and it's not going to end soon. Think of how many workers have lost their jobs, their homes and...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-03-2008
Solidarity march slated for Oct. 18 Building trades union members and their families are invited to a "solidarity march" to protest anti-worker National Labor Relations Board rulings, and to support...
Right-to-work Wrong for Michigan? Not for these union busters
Date: Oct-03-2008
GRAND RAPIDS - The call to make Michigan a right-to-work state pops its ugly head up now and then, and its latest sighting was at the 2008 West Michigan Regional...
Trades safely land construction at Metro's North Terminal
Date: Oct-03-2008
ROMULUS - The North Terminal has flung open its gates - all 27 of them - completing a three-year-long construction project that will burnish the reputation of Metro Airport as...
Business leaders now worry about workers' voting rights on the job? How… touching
Date: Sep-19-2008
By Andy Zipser, Editor, The Guild Reporter Communication Workers of America As the CWA, like the rest of organized labor, makes a major push on behalf of the Employee Free...
Labor starts biggest blitz ever to appeal to members to vote Obama
Date: Sep-19-2008
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer If you live in Michigan and you haven't received a communication from your union, urging you to vote for Barack Obama for president -...
News Briefs
Date: Sep-19-2008
Solidarity march set for Oct. 18 Building trades union members and their families are invited to a "solidarity march" to protest anti-worker National Labor Relations Board rulings, and to support...