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News Briefs
Date: May-31-2013
Workers’ comp kids can seek scholarship “Kids’ Chance Scholarships” for children of injured workers seeking higher education are now available from the recently established Kids’ Chance of Michigan, the 26th state...
Uncertainty still a drag for top U.S. contractors
Date: May-31-2013
Last year, with its annual survey of the Top 400 U.S. construction contractors, The Engineering News Recordasked, “is the construction industry finally coming out of the recession?” This year, possibly answering...
Uptown development on the rise
Date: May-31-2013
BAY CITY – The Uptown development on the city’s riverfront is going up quickly, but there’s a lot more work to be done. Structural steel has been completed on the...
With an impotent NLRB, for workers, ‘who is going to enforce the law?’
Date: May-31-2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Labor Relations Board – the federal agency most responsible for upholding workers’ rights on the job – is, incredibly, nearly dead in the water. Ultimately,...
House GOP OKs comp time bill; ‘a false premise’
Date: May-17-2013
WASHINGTON (PAI) – Brushing aside opposition from unions, women’s groups and civil rights groups – among others – the Republican-run House passed legislation (HR1406) on May 8 to let employers...
Local 169 welding contest becomes a destination for high schoolers
Date: May-17-2013
ALLEN PARK – A decade after the first Boilermakers Local 169 High School Welding Invitational, the annual springtime event has become a fixture on the calendar for both the union...
News Briefs
Date: May-17-2013
Gleason back to politick for trades Patrick “Shorty” Gleason, a familiar figure at the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, has been brought back on as the council’s Legislative Director,...
Protesting the dark side of ‘Freedom to Work’
Date: May-17-2013
COOPERSVILLE – West Michigan Plumbers Fitters and Service Trades led a protest on May 3 at the Continental Dairy Plant. We were joined by area workers and local advocates to protest...
Road funding turmoil may be saving grace for state prevailing wage
Date: May-17-2013
LANSING – Will Republican in-fighting over how to fund road repairs help save the state’s prevailing wage law? Maybe, maybe not. But there are potential chinks in the front of...
Supreme Court solicits Solicitor’s advice on RTW law
Date: May-17-2013
LANSING – There has been just a little movement in the Michigan Supreme Court regarding the state’s new right-to-work law. On May 3 the state’s high court asked state Solicitor...