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Snyder lays waste to a law he doesn't grasp
Date: Dec-21-2012
(Editor’s note: In the 1960s, Levin literally “wrote the book” to help assemble for Michigan the first state public employment labor relations bill in the nation as a member of...
Appeal of PLA ruling continues GOP vendetta
Date: Dec-07-2012
LANSING – Republican state Attorney General Bill Schuette is taking the case against project labor agreements to a higher court – again. On Nov. 21 Schuette’s office announced that it...
Election’s over, time to focus on regaining union market share
Date: Dec-07-2012
Across America, voters said “Yes” to Barack Obama ‘s vision to move our nation forward by investing in America and re-building our country from the middle out. But perhaps more...
It’s ready, aim, wait for potential state right-to-work law
Date: Dec-07-2012
LANSING – As we went to press on Dec. 4, there was no right-to-work law in Michigan. But by the time you read this, there could be. Since the lame...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Dec-07-2012
Construction up 4 percent vs. 2011 Through the first ten months of 2012, total construction starts on an unadjusted basis came in at $390.4 billion, a 4 percent gain relative...
Old and new school buildings revitalize academic campus
Date: Dec-07-2012
FLINT – The timing proved just right for coordinated moves by the Michigan School for the Deaf and Powers Catholic High School, resulting in the renovation of an iconic school...
RTW: ‘it will unleash as rancorous a legislative battle as the Capitol has seen in modern times’
Date: Dec-07-2012
If and when a right-to-work law is adopted in Michigan, it will be the result of classic backroom politics, with only Republican lawmakers in the room. Republicans control the governor’s...
After Proposal 2 defeat, unions will get whacked; but who – and how hard?
Date: Nov-23-2012
LANSING – This probably isn’t going to be pretty. The defeat at the polls of Proposal 2 – which would have made Michigan the first state to enshrine collective bargaining...
Judge makes PLAs legal, again
Date: Nov-23-2012
Project labor agreements in Michigan continue to be caught in a revolving door of litigation and legislation– but for now, a federal judge’s ruling has made them legal, again. Federal...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Nov-23-2012
Trades mourn Carlo J. Castiglione A private service was held this month in Florida for Carlo J. Castiglione, a former business manager of Plumbers Local 98 who passed away Nov....