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Health care costs likely to start incursion into your paycheck
Date: Sep-27-2002
Get ready for a bigger chunk of your pay raises to be allocated to health care costs. In fact, the "health care crisis" in the U.S. is so severe, said...
Heimlich, CPR training can save a life
Date: Sep-27-2002
Earning a first aid card through the Michigan Construction Trades Safety Institute's Save-A-Life program brings obvious benefits to your job in the skilled trades. Yet medical emergencies can arise anywhere,...
Labor rallies, but will members vote?
Date: Sep-27-2002
LANSING - Several thousand union members marched to the steps of the State Capitol Sept. 19, getting the attention of lawmakers with union banners, shirts, flags, placards - and a...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Sep-27-2002
ENR lists top contractors Several Michigan firms are on the annual rankings of the Engineering News Record's top 400 contractors. Among the top 100 firms are Southfield-based Barton-Malow (#34), Walbridge-Aldinger...
Steam-powered scoop: historic crane's days may be numbered
Date: Sep-27-2002
FRANKFORT - Steam power is alive and (sort of) well on the Great Lakes. No, not in the form of a locomotive train engine or paddle-wheel boat at one of...
Thanks for your generosity after Sept. 11
Date: Sep-27-2002
In the days and weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, employees, workers and employers of the Michigan building trades and construction industry made numerous contributions of time, talents and resources to...
There's still time: Register to vote by Monday, Oct. 7
Date: Sep-27-2002
An election as important as the one that will take place in Michigan on Tuesday, Nov. 5 deserves all the participation that can be mustered. And in order to participate...
Who are those guys? Part 2
Date: Sep-27-2002
Editor's note: In our last edition, we published the first in a series of three articles devoted to exposing the membership makeup of the rabidly anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors....
Labor celebrates Labor Day
Date: Sep-13-2002
Granholm pledges 'new era of economic development' In a bygone era, Labor Day was the traditional kickoff day for major political campaigns in Michigan and across the nation. Today, of...
Mi-Dems vow: 'It's time for a change in Michigan'
Date: Sep-13-2002
By John M, Hamilton, President Greater Detroit Building and Construction Trades Council As a member of the Executive Committee of the Michigan Democratic Party, I attended the convention held in...