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NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Oct-31-2003
Small rise seen for U.S. construction Total U.S. construction is likely to rise 1 percent in 2003 vs. 2002, according to Mcgraw-Hill Construction. Unfortunately, home-building, which is hardly a bastion...
Poor jobless numbers are tip of the iceberg for President Bush
Date: Oct-31-2003
As of the end of October, the U.S. stock market had risen 30 percent since March, consumers were spending more, industrial activity was on the rise, and 57,000 jobs had...
Too much overtime can be too much of a good thing
Date: Oct-31-2003
Nearly all construction projects these days have one thing in common: the owners want the work done yesterday. Unless their project has a spring running through where they're trying to...
Bush seeks to bury unions under a costly pile of new accounting paperwork
Date: Oct-17-2003
WASHINGTON - President Bush sent another signal of his open disdain for the nation's workers and organized labor on Oct. 3, by imposing new onerous and costly bookkeeping rules on...
Latest vote on OT hands labor a win
Date: Oct-17-2003
In a win for the nation's workers, the U.S. House on Oct. 2 defeated President Bush's efforts to make changes to federal labor law that would have made up to...
Michigan, 14 other states tire of being 'donors' of U.S. highway money
Date: Oct-17-2003
LANSING - During the past six years, Michigan has averaged an 88 percent return on highway funding it sends to the federal government, giving it the dubious distinction of being...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Oct-17-2003
Painters' Cardwell dies in accident B.J. Cardwell, general president's representative for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, died Oct. 3, 2003 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident...
Technically, trades erect new facility for Lansing CC
Date: Oct-17-2003
DELTA TWP. - Building trades union members are erecting the Michigan Technical Education Center/Technical Training Center. And when the project is complete in November 2004, they'll be picking up part...
Unique 3-auger system creates columns of 'soilcrete' to hold back sodden earth
Date: Oct-17-2003
An underground spring meanders beneath Patton Park in Southwest Detroit, making the soggy soil an undesirable site for the extensive sewer line work that's currently taking place. General contractor Walbride-Aldinger...
Campus Martius' historic monuments mark city's place in the past
Date: Oct-03-2003
Two acres in the heart of Detroit make up the plot of land called Campus Martius, named for an area in ancient Rome that served as a gathering point for...