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State offers more phone access for jobless benefits
Date: Sep-19-2003
The state's telephone system for accepting unemployment claims is now open for business in the south-central Michigan region served by 517 area code. The telephone filing system now accepts calls...
Trades convene at Convention Center
Date: Sep-19-2003
GRAND RAPIDS - The new $220 million De Vos Place Convention Center, a one million square-foot complex expansion that will include an exhibition hall, flexible-use ballroom and a "grand gallery,"...
We built this village… Visteon HQ is topped out
Date: Sep-19-2003
VAN BUREN TWP. - With last month's topping out of the five major buildings that make up Visteon Village, the site is beginning to look a little more like a...
Bush hangs his hat on tax cuts to cure U.S. economic ills
Date: Sep-05-2003
The presidency of George W. Bush has been dominated by three major issues: the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the war with Iraq, and the nation's economy. Most Democrats...
File by phone system in place for jobless apps
Date: Sep-05-2003
The state's telephone system for accepting unemployment claims is open for business in western Michigan and unemployed workers are being encouraged to use it. "The phone process for filing unemployment...
Labor's agenda 'is not the agenda of this administration'
Date: Sep-05-2003
President Bush's budget for 2004 will reflect a shortfall of $480 billion. Over nearly three years, the Bush Administration has been giving American workers the short end of the stick,...
Landmark marks labor's 'rich heritage'
Date: Sep-05-2003
The gap at the top of the 63-foot tall Michigan Labor Legacy Landmark represents labor's unfinished tasks. But on Aug. 21, one of those tasks was officially placed in the...
Legacy Landmark also highlights link between the building trades and AGC
Date: Sep-05-2003
By Douglas L. Maibach, P.E. Just off the corner of Jefferson and Griswold at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit is a towering new 63-foot-high stainless steel arch that is a...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Sep-05-2003
Boilermakers' Marek New MBTC president Boilermakers Local 169 Business Manager John Marek has been appointed to fill the two years remaining in the term of Michigan Building and Construction Trades...
Trades celebrate a soggy Labor Day
Date: Sep-05-2003
A diehard group of a few thousand building trades workers and their families braved the wet weather on Sept. 1 and celebrated Labor Day - with umbrellas and ponchos joining...