A strike by union bricklayers and other masonry workers in southeast Michigan ended after one day following late-night bargaining Monday night, according to the union's president.

The work stoppage that began at 12:01 a.m. Monday was over about 12 hours later following late-night bargaining that won increases for workers in pension and health benefits as well as hourly raises, said Chuck Kukawka, president of Local 2 of the Masonry and Allied Craftworkers, in an email sent at 12:47 a.m. Tuesday.

Kukuwka did not give details of the new contract in his initial email, although the Free Press is seeking the amounts of hourly raises and other data. Among major construction sites where bricklaying and masonry work halted Monday — and where picketers stood with signs outside the work site — was a $33-million shopping center and hotel site being developed by Beaumont Health in Royal Oak, Kukuwka said in a telephone interview early Monday night.

Although the one-day strike stopped work at dozens of construction sites, it did not interrupt work at major projects covered under a national labor contract, including these in Detroit: the Henry Ford Cancer Center, the Pistons Practice Facility, the Little Caesars Arena headquarters, the Michigan Central Train Station being redeveloped by Ford, and “all auto industry job sites, steel mills and power plants, according to the union's website, under the heading: "United We Bargain — Divided We Beg."

Kukawka said his local had gone on strike against the Masonry Contractors Association of Southeast Michigan or MCA, based in Bloomfield Township. MCA is a group of 15 contracting firms that build projects in Oakland, Wayne, Macomb, Monroe and St. Clair counties, according to the MCA website. No officials of MCA could be reached Monday.

A spokesman for Beaumont Health, which operates eight hospitals in metro Detroit, declined to comment on Monday about the work stoppage at the health system's project to redevelop its longtime shopping and dining site. The site, at the southwest corner of 13 Mile Road and Woodward Avenue, is to be called Woodward Corners by Beaumont. Originally scheduled to open last fall, the completion date for the 16-acre development has been moved forward to at least this fall, hospital officials said last year.

In bargaining for the bricklayers, masons, tile workers and allied trades, the two sides negotiated at the union local’s headquarters in Warren, Kukawka said.

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