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GOP finds time to draw a new line for what makes an ‘illegal’ picket in Michigan
Date: Oct-04-2013
LANSING – Michigan’s Republican legislators – with expansion of the federal health care law, chronic unemployment and broken infrastructure already on their plate – have found time to hold a...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-04-2013
Marquette General to move, build big Marquette General Announces New Hospital Construction Plan Marquette General Hospital and Duke LifePoint Healthcare have announced plans to construct a new 600,000 square-foot, 265-bed...
Oh, the humanity… What will GOP do if union succeeds in RTW Tennessee?
Date: Oct-04-2013
By Dante Atkins It's a common refrain among conservative economists and politicians: If only government would end its interference in the affairs of private enterprise, the efficiencies of the free...
The Gangbox - Assorted News and Notes
Date: Oct-04-2013
Michigan still bad for business. After nearly three years of complete Republican control off all levers of state government, a $1.8 billion tax break for businesses at the expense of...
Appeals court strikes down Michigan PLA law
Date: Sep-20-2013
CINCINNATI – A U.S. Court of Appeals panel overturned a lower court’s ruling on Sept. 6, and reinstated a Michigan law that bans state and local governments from entering into...
Indiana circuit judge tosses state right-to-work laws
Date: Sep-20-2013
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer (PAI) – An Indiana circuit court judge tossed out the state’s new, controversial “right to work” law, agreeing with the Operating Engineers that it...
Modern, efficient Jamrich Hall going up on NMU’s campus
Date: Sep-20-2013
MARQUETTE – Northern Michigan University is highly confident that its new Jamrich Hall is going provide space that’s much more inviting and efficient than the Jamrich Hall that it will...
Supreme Court next stop for public unions in RTW case
Date: Sep-20-2013
LANSING – Unions representing more than 30,000 state workers continue to maintain that they are exempt from the state’s right-to-work law, and are appealing an Aug. 15 state Appeals Court...
Trumka strongly defends including outside groups into labor movement
Date: Sep-20-2013
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer LOS ANGELES (PAI) – AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is strongly defending his plans to include outside groups – environmentalists, civil rights groups, women’s rights...
Weakened labor movement opens AFL-CIO to nonunion workers, groups, coalitions
Date: Sep-20-2013
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer LOS ANGELES (PAI) – The labor movement has made official what federation officers forecast for months: It’s opening itself to non-union workers, too. In...