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United Auto Workers members picket outside of GM's Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center in September 2019.
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UAW Strike Against GM Stretches Into Second Week

Detroit Today September 24, 2019

Jake Neher/WDET Editor’s note: WDET reporters are members of the Professional and Administrative Union, Local 1979, UAW. The UAW strike against General Motors...

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UAW strike
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UAW Strike Against General Motors Has Big Impact on Metro Detroit

Detroit Today September 16, 2019

Editor’s note: WDET reporters are members of the Professional and Administrative Union, Local 1979, UAW. UAW workers are hitting the picket lines against...

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Rep. Andy Levin Mackinac 2019 3 5/29/2019
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Michigan Already Seeing Manufacturing Recession, Says Rep. Andy Levin

Detroit Today September 11, 2019

Members of Congress are back in Washington D.C. this week after their summer break. There are plenty of pressing issues to...

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State Sen. Peter Lucido (R-Shelby Twp) 8/19/2019
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GOP State Sen. Peter Lucido Talks Road Negotiations, Budget, Possible Run For Congress

Detroit Today August 19, 2019

State lawmakers head back to Lansing on Tuesday after their summer break. They have some hefty tasks to tackle between...

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Want One of FCA’s 5,000 Promised Jobs? Get in Line

Laura Herberg August 12, 2019

Detroit is getting its first new auto assembly plant in nearly 30 years as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles updates a current plant...

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Is Your Local Road Ready for a Bike Lane?

Detroit Today August 12, 2019

Jake Neher/WDET Traveling around Metro Detroit in the last few years, you might notice that some communities are getting rid of...

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8/1/2019 Dem Debate Pic 1
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Biden and Harris, Bruised During Debate, take Campaigns to Detroit Streets

Quinn Klinefelter August 2, 2019

Former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, among the frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination in many...

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FCA construction
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Detroit’s East Side is Already Polluted. Will Fiat Chrysler Make It Worse?

Laura Herberg July 22, 2019

When Amoni Pitts hears trucks working one street over from where she lives, she worries about being able to breathe....

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School Bus Derby 9
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Ready, Set, Crash? Flat Rock Speedway’s Night of School Bus Destruction

Amanda LeClaire, Shiraz Ahmed, LaToya Cross July 18, 2019

Shiraz Ahmed Chants fill the night air and the crowd is energized as they await Flat Rock Speedway’s Night of...

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Mackinac 2019 5 5/29/2019
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Gov. Whitmer On First Six Months: Legislature Took a Break “Before the Work was Done”

Detroit Today July 17, 2019

Jake Neher/WDET The first half of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s first year in office has passed, and there’s been a lot of...

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FCA LH construction
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Walking Beniteau Street in the Prelude to Fiat Chrysler’s Plant Expansion

Laura Herberg July 15, 2019

Laura Herberg/WDET Walking down the sidewalk of Beniteau Street on Detroit’s eastside with a shotgun microphone covered in a fuzzy...

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Manufacturing Assembly Industry Economy USDA.gov 4.5.17-jn
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How Trump’s Trade and Tariff Policy is Affecting Michigan Industries

Detroit Today July 8, 2019

President Donald Trump uses the strength of the US economy as a talking point to tout the strength and growth...

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