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    :: Friday, August 22, 2003 ::

    POSTCARD FROM THE ROAD By T.R. Sullivan - Greetings from Detroit,
    You know you're in an industrial city when a labor union has a big advertising sign on the left-field wall.

    That's right. Here at Detroit's Comerica Park, along with a sign for the Michigan Lottery and a well-known beer, there's another sign boosting the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights.

    MA - Carpenters union wants the work on huge project By Mary Ford
    Police called to quell unruly demonstration

    The frustration of members of the local carpenters union - who feel shut out of what will be one of the biggest construction projects on the South Shore - spilled over onto heavily traveled Route 53 last week in what police described as an 'unruly mob.' Some of the demonstrators could still face arrest.

    Southeast Mississippi - Carpenters vote to bring union back By BRAD CROCKER
    PASCAGOULA -- Nearly 40 local scaffold carpenters sent a loud message to their employer Thursday -- bring back the union.
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