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Unions Back Infrastructure Plan

DETROIT-Major labor unions signed on to support a plan to build a new $400-million Detroit-Windsor truck tunnel to ease commerce flow.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on August 11, 2003

DETROIT-A $400-million Detroit River border crossing proposal got a big boost from organized labor in the US and Canada.

Union officials, led by Teamsters president James P. Hoffa, are calling the Detroit River Tunnel Partnership’s proposal the “Jobs Tunnel” and say it would help protect as many as 84,000 manufacturing jobs in the Detroit-Windsor region. The partnership proposes to use a 100-year-old two-lane train tunnel that passes under the river to build a new truck tunnel to help ease the bottleneck that now exists for trucks at the Detroit-Windsor, Ontario, border.

“Hundreds of trucks, at this moment, are lined up on the too small, too limited, too outdated Ambassador Bridge,” says Teamsters spokesman Bill Black.

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