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Bush's new overtime rules amount to a pay takeaway from workers
Date: Sep-03-2004
On Monday, Aug. 23, the Bush administration took away the right to receive overtime pay from millions of employees in a broad range of occupations, from office workers in financial...
News Briefs
Date: Sep-03-2004
Gleason, LaSalle to oversee Mighty Mac LANSING – Two union iron workers, Patrick F. “Shorty” Gleason and Jon “Jack” LaSalle, were appointed to the Mackinac Bridge Authority on Aug. 11...
Trades give time, talent to improve treatment center
Date: Sep-03-2004
KALAMAZOO – A place to walk and a place to unwind were created for clients at the Jim Gilmore Jr. Treatment Center by Southwest Michigan Building Trades workers. About 100...
Wake up call at MBTC convention
Date: Sep-03-2004
BAY CITY – More than half a century after unions reached their pinnacle of clout in 1953 – when 35.7 of the U.S. workforce was in the house of organized...
'Your strength is impaired You have fewer people. Lawmakers don't want to listen to you'
Date: Sep-03-2004
Don Power is a federal mediator who was invited to speak to Michigan building trades delegates on Aug. 24. The year 1980, said Power – the year Ronald Reagan was...
Approval nears for Gun Lake Tribe casino; you can help
Date: Aug-20-2004
Organized labor is all aboard the planned development of a $225 million casino entertainment project in Wayland Township, south of Grand Rapids. The go-ahead for the project awaits Gov. Granholm’s...
Labor walks, talks in Michigan on Sept. 2
Date: Aug-20-2004
The importance of Michigan’s union members as a voting bloc cannot be underestimated. In the 2000 presidential campaign, some 43 percent of all Michigan voters came from union households, with...
New expansion at Metro Airport as Northwest capitalizes B and C terminals
Date: Aug-20-2004
More than two years after opening the $1.2 billion McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metro Airport, Northwest Airlines is expanding its capacity for handling passengers and smaller, regional jets. Construction manager...
News Briefs
Date: Aug-20-2004
$280 K in fines for truss collapse Federal OSHA has proposed $280,000 in fines for a contractor building the Maumee River Bridge in Toledo, a section of which collapsed Feb....
President Bush: Hardly a bystander in war on workers
Date: Aug-20-2004
For America’s working families, the stakes in this fall’s presidential elections are the greatest of a lifetime, and the outcome of the election may well determine the shape of basic...