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ALEC’s dirty work deserves more exposure
Date: Apr-27-2012
By James Hoffa Teamsters General President Working Americans scored a big victory last week when four corporations withdrew their membership from a secretive group called the American Legislative Exchange Council....
ALEC’s name written all over rash of anti-union legislation in U.S.
Date: Apr-27-2012
Meet ALEC, one of the most influential groups affecting politics and policy in Michigan and across the country – and it’s a group that you have likely never heard of....
Appealing power plant seen as asset to Lansing’s REO Town
Date: Apr-27-2012
LANSING – It may be hard to believe that a new power plant can be plunked down amid residences and business – and be welcomed by the neighbors as an...
EXCITING NEW SOCIAL NETWORK FOR UNIONS
Date: Apr-27-2012
‘Facebook for union members’ Union Circle website launched (Submitted by Union Circle.com) UnionCircle.com was designed to provide a place where 40 million active union members, supporters, retirees, family and friends...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Apr-27-2012
Shorty Gleason to run for state House seat Patrick “Shorty” Gleason, a former union leader well known to Michigan’s construction industry and a current Genesee County Commissioner, announced his campaign...
Next stop: renovation for old train depot
Date: Apr-27-2012
LANSING – Freight trains regularly rumble by the former Grand Trunk Western Depot these days. So does the Amtrak Blue Water passenger train, but it now stops in East Lansing....
Congress averts jobs train wreck; passes short-term transit funding
Date: Apr-13-2012
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI)--Acting with unexpected speed, lawmakers voted March 29 for a 90-day extension of federal highway and mass transit programs, averting a giant crash...
First National Building gets first major makeover
Date: Apr-13-2012
DETROIT – Quicken Loans Chairman Dan Gilbert is relocating his company’s workforce downtown by the thousands – and the building trades are rehabilitating several historic buildings to make a place...
MDOT chief: State’s roads on the road to ‘disaster’
Date: Apr-13-2012
LANSING – The subject: A synopsis of the state of the state’s finances to fund road and bridge repairs and maintenance. The source: Michigan Department of Transportation Director Kirk Steudle....
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Apr-13-2012
BCTD President Mark Ayers passes The building trades mourn the passing of AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD) President Mark Ayers, who died suddenly on April 8, 2012. Mr....