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News Briefs
Date: Jul-09-2004
Drug costs hikes triple inflation rate WASHINGTON – Starting June 1, Medicare discount cards began to be distributed to U.S. senior citizens. According to the American Association of Retired Persons,...
On the record: Bush's anti-worker bias isn't hard to find
Date: Jul-09-2004
Why are the building trades unions and the rest of organized labor supporting Democrat John Kerry for U.S. president? Mainly because there is a three-and-a-half year record by President Bush...
Steady pace marks construction operations at Crittenton Hospital
Date: Jul-09-2004
The building trades and construction manager Barton Malow are working to make the Crittenton Hospital Medical Center into a bigger and better provider of health care services for northern Oakland...
The Gangbox - Assorted News and Notes
Date: Jul-09-2004
Kerry: jobs exporting is wrong. “I’ve met steelworkers and mine workers and autoworkers who are now ex-workers. They’ve watched their jobs and equipment unbolted before their eyes and shipped overseas –...
Bush's NLRB may set another hurdle for union organizing
Date: Jun-25-2004
In what could foreshadow a radical change in federal labor law, the National Labor Relations Board announced June 7 it will review the legality of “card-check” rules that are used...
Coming clean on hand sanitizers: They're good, but soap and water are better
Date: Jun-25-2004
With many construction workers unable to use soap and running water during their entire workday, how effective are alcohol-based hand sanitizers as a substitute? Not surprisingly, some of the research...
Gang Box
Date: Jun-25-2004
Wal-Mart has received more than $1 billion in subsidies from state and local government, according to a new report by the public interest group Good Jobs First. The group combed public...
News Briefs
Date: Jun-25-2004
Help available for state’s jobless Unemployed workers who have questions or problems with their state unemployment benefit claims now have another option for getting help. A new state Unemployment Insurance...
Spartan fans can go up another level
Date: Jun-25-2004
EAST LANSING – The building trades are erecting an entirely new area to watch Michigan State football above the west bleachers of Spartan Stadium – but they won’t be the...
Trades' talents on display during DIA renovation
Date: Jun-25-2004
The Detroit Institute of Arts wants guests like Whistler’s Mother and permanent residents created by Rembrandt, Van Gogh and other artists to have as comfortable a home as possible. So...