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Employers slap lawsuits on retirees to slither out of health care obligations
Date: Nov-26-2004
Employers are now suing individual union retirees in an effort to lower their company's health care liability. Until about a decade ago, health care benefits for both union and salaried...
Good and hard
Date: Nov-26-2004
If you weren't a little alarmed about our front-page report regarding employers suing innocent retirees in an effort to convince a judge to cancel the retirees' health benefits, you should...
Labor looks to future, then looks at itself, following Bush win
Date: Nov-26-2004
"We have survived wars. We have survived recessions. But can we survive four more years of this?" - meaning another term for President Bush - asked AFL-CIO Executive Vice President...
New emergency/trauma center goes up at Marquette General
Date: Nov-26-2004
MARQUETTE - As of mid-November, there was no snow on the ground here and temperatures were in the mid-40s. It has been very good weather for building one of the...
News Briefs
Date: Nov-26-2004
Union agent Merriman dies Jim Merriman, a business agent with the Greater Detroit Building Trades Council and Operating Engineers Local 324, died of cancer on Nov. 16, 2004. He was...
Roofers follow pattern of quality with new slate roof
Date: Nov-26-2004
ANN ARBOR - In 1872, seven years after the Civil War ended and the year in which Ulysses S. Grant was re-elected president, roofers put a slate roof on the...
Summit challenges unions: 'We've got to change our way of thinking'
Date: Nov-26-2004
EAST LANSING - What may have been the first Michigan Construction Industry Labor-Management Economic Summit was held Nov. 8 at Michigan State University's Wharton Center. No punches were pulled in...
Construction tops worker fatality list
Date: Nov-12-2004
Construction once again made its annual appearance at or near the top of the list of the nation's most dangerous industries, ranking first in the number of total workplace fatalities...
Election aftermath: Go right? Go left? Debate starts for Dems
Date: Nov-12-2004
Or is love all we need? Union workers and their families were among the more than 100 million Americans who went to the polls on Nov. 2 to elect the...
Local 324 training helps bring GPS technology down to earth
Date: Nov-12-2004
By J.D. Booth From the reaches of space to the depths of a roadbed or other construction surface: users of technology developed around the U.S. government's Global Positioning System (GPS)...