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Gangbox Assorted News and Notes
Date: Feb-04-2005
Wal-Mart costs you. A new study in Tennessee found that one-quarter of Wal-Mart's workforce in that state receive health care through the state's Medicaid program - TennCare - not the...
Hill's renovation top-notch, AIA says
Date: Feb-04-2005
ANN ARBOR -The American Institute of Architects this month bestowed its annual AIA "Honor Award" on the Hill Auditorium renovation project - to recognize the University of Michigan venue with...
MIOSHA - Making a difference for 30 years
Date: Feb-04-2005
By MIOSHA Director Doug Kalinowski 2005 is a milestone year for workplace safety and health in Michigan. It marks the 30th Anniversary of the modern MIOSHA program and the beginning...
News Briefs
Date: Feb-04-2005
UA stalwart Doug Griffith dies Douglas W. Griffith, who served remarkably long tenures as business manager of Lansing Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 388 and as president of the Michigan...
22 Michigan Hardhats die on the job in 2004
Date: Jan-21-2005
There were 22 construction worker fatalities in Michigan in 2004 - two less than in 2003 but about average comparing year-by-year deaths over the last decade. The highest number of...
Conservative 'working class movement' wins over voters abandoned by Dems
Date: Jan-21-2005
Editor's note: Here's another in series examining the challenges organized labor faces as it contemplates historic changes to reinvigorate itself. By Barbara Kucera and Michael Kuchta Workday Minnesota and the...
Lost and found: Interlaken shipwreck found by plumber father and pilot son
Date: Jan-21-2005
MUSKEGON - The shifting sands on the bottom of Lake Michigan moved aside long enough in September 2003 for Plumbers, Pipe Fitters and Service Trades Local 174 member Doug Freye...
Meet MITA: merged group represents heavy construction
Date: Jan-21-2005
LANSING - The membership of Associated Underground Contractors - Michigan's Heavy Construction Association (AUC) and the Michigan Road Builders Association (MRBA) have approved a merger to form the Michigan Infrastructure...
News Briefs
Date: Jan-21-2005
China gains as U.S. loses jobs The U.S. lost 1.5 million jobs to China between 1989 and 2003, the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute said in a report released this month....
Safety strongly stressed before sewer project starts
Date: Jan-21-2005
Worker safety will be Job One as the building trades and general contractor Walbridge-Aldinger prepare to build the largest sinking caisson in the world. The $34 million project, which will...