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Study: Anti-union ABC is a shell when it comes to construction
Date: May-25-2012
WASHINGTON (PAI) – A top anti-union lobby, the Associated Builders and Contractors, which proclaims itself as the national voice of non-union construction companies, actually represents a small share of U.S....
Trades learn all the angles at MSU’s Broad Museum
Date: May-25-2012
EAST LANSING – The new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum under construction on the campus of Michigan State University is itself, in many ways, a piece of art. The...
GOP seeks elusive cure to what ails their anti-PLA law
Date: May-11-2012
LANSING – The curious Republican fixation on banning the use of construction project labor agreements by state and local governmental authorities in Michigan just got curioser. Here’s what has happened...
Lack of public spending a drag on construction
Date: May-11-2012
Construction spending inched up in March 2012 to an annualized rate of $808 billion, up 0.1 percent compared to the previous month. It is now 6 percent above year ago...
Mitt Romney to the Associated Builders and Contractors: ‘I will fight for right-to-work laws’
Date: May-11-2012
Following are selected union-related comments made by Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney to the anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors National Board of Directors on Feb. 23. (Source: transcribed C-SPAN video)....
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: May-11-2012
Michigan in grips of deregulators We reported last month that the Snyder Administration’s new Office of Regulatory Reinvention (ORR) proposed the elimination of 611 on-the-job safety requirements and 334 MIOSHA...
Obama to trades: GOP blocking jobs
Date: May-11-2012
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) – As far as Democratic President Barack Obama is concerned, congressional obstructionism, courtesy of the GOP, is blocking jobs for construction workers...
Romney, Obama talk union on the campaign trail
Date: May-11-2012
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama. Mitt Romney. Compare and contrast. To the AFL-CIO Building Trades Department Legislative Conference held April 30-May 2 at the Hilton Hotel, President Obama said all the...
Trades go back to work completing Gateway Project
Date: May-11-2012
DETROIT –About that Bridge to Nowhere: Nevermind. Some concrete support piers and stub of a bridge that were intended to be the starting point of a span alongside the Ambassador...
ALEC example: Snyder signs law limiting asbestos exposure for success firms
Date: Apr-27-2012
LANSING – Gov. Rick Snyder so far has not passed up any opportunity to sign Republican legislation aimed at limiting workers’ bargaining rights, benefits, income or legal standing. It was...