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Unions end newspaper boycott
Date: Jan-05-2001
The bitter Detroit newspaper dispute is over, and newspaper unions have called off the boycott of the Detroit News and Free Press. After five and a half years of battling...
'A' for effort on early S-Curve completion
Date: Dec-22-2000
GRAND RAPIDS - The state Department of Transportation called the city's S-Curve "by far the largest and most complex civil engineering project ever launched in West Michigan." Due to the...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Dec-22-2000
Newspaper dispute ends with settlements Detroit's Metropolitan Council of Newspaper Unions announced Monday that contract ratification votes by two Teamsters locals brings to an end the five-and-a-half-year labor dispute. Other...
Sanitation standard moves slowly, but now, not-so-surely
Date: Dec-22-2000
In April 1999, we wrote, "things are starting to move" in getting a federal sanitation standard implemented that would require employers to provide toilet and hand-washing facilities on virtually every...
Trades, Walbridge help improve togetherness among GM engineers
Date: Dec-22-2000
With 13 engineering facilities scattered up and down the I-75 corridor, General Motors came to the conclusion a decade ago that that portion of its operations wasn't running on all...
Union movers picket
Date: Dec-22-2000
OPERATING ENGINEERS Local 324 members picketed Canadian Machinery Movers on Nov. 30 and will continue to confront the company for paying substandard wages and benefits. Companies that don't pay standard...
Wage standards upheld -- at least for this year
Date: Dec-22-2000
LANSING - The building trades and other working class people dodged three more bullets in the state legislature last week, avoiding some pretty major legislation that would have prevented municipalities...
Good times continue in construction, but warning signs loom
Date: Dec-20-2000
Will the seemingly endless current construction boom continue into 2001? The signs point to "yes" - but for the first time in years, there are caution flags being waved that...
IBEW training center opens doors to the future
Date: Dec-08-2000
The new training facility underwritten by IBEW Local 58 and National Electrical Contractors Association-Southeastern Michigan is open for business. The 51,000 square-foot building along the I-696 service drive in Warren...
Laborers expand training facility
Date: Dec-08-2000
The Michigan Laborers Training and Apprenticeship Institute (MLTAI) has completed a two-year expansion and renovation of its Wayne training facility to meet the growing manpower needs of the construction industry....