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AFL-CIO hits Obama’s delay of health care employer mandate
Date: Jul-26-2013
WASHINGTON (PAI) – The AFL-CIO, which saw Democratic President Barack Obama push one top provision of the 2010 health insurance law – a 2018 tax on so-called “Cadillac” health care...
Construction jobless rate falls to lowest level since 2009
Date: Jul-26-2013
The unemployment rate for construction workers fell below double digits in June for the first time since 2008 as every segment of the industry added employees, according to an analysis...
New East End development will be a bridge to downtown
Date: Jul-26-2013
MIDLAND – A major development in the works will link the home of the city’s minor league baseball team, Dow Diamond, with city’s downtown core. It’s called the East End...
News Briefs
Date: Jul-26-2013
Labor hails end of NLRB standoff WASHINGTON (PAI) – On July 16, the Senate solved a fight between its Republican minority and Democrats, including Majority Leader Harry Reid and President...
Not too long ago, a more perfect union
Date: Jul-26-2013
By Sam Pizzigati Ten generations have come and gone since 1776. Yet the Founders still fascinate us. Books about Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and...
Supreme Court’s pro-union ruling puts RTW appeals on path to more legal review
Date: Jul-26-2013
LANSING – The Michigan Supreme Court may have placed a speed bump in front of the state’s newly minted right-to-work law. On July 5 the Supreme Court rejected Gov. Rick...
Union leaders on health care law: ‘Support for ACA ‘has come back to haunt us’
Date: Jul-26-2013
This is the latest in a series of articles on the pending impact of the Affordable Care Act. Leaders of three U.S. international unions sent a letter to Senate Majority...
May sees modest construction improvement
Date: Jul-12-2013
Total construction spending climbed modestly in May as growth in residential and public construction offset a drop in private nonresidential activity, according to an analysis of new Census Bureau data...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jul-12-2013
Michigan, happily, broke its string of losing construction jobs in every month during 2013, eeking out a 0.9 percent gain in industry employment from April to May 2013. That’s the...
Rulings show businesses enjoy stacked deck before Supreme Court
Date: Jul-12-2013
The same-sex marriage and voting rights act debates have dominated the news from the U.S. Supreme Court in recent weeks – but there’s much more going on up their black-robed...