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Health care law to get Supreme Court scrutiny
Date: Jan-20-2012
By Steve Clark Laborers Health and Safety Fund of North America Expected in June, the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)...
Hoosiers workers mobilize against right-to-work
Date: Jan-20-2012
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer INDIANAPOLIS (PAI)—The Indiana AFL-CIO is mobilizing its forces – everything from lobbying lawmakers to door-to-door canvassing to running media ads – against a Republican...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jan-20-2012
Painter falls from Ambassasor Bridge Kent Morton, a 27-year-old member of Painters Local 42, fell on Jan. 11 from the Ambassador Bridge on into the Detroit River. He was painting...
No longer the party of Lincoln…Why is union-bashing so central to today’s Republican Party?
Date: Jan-20-2012
By John Nichols The Nation (Reprinted with permission) Never in the modern history of the Republican Party has a field of GOP presidential candidates been so united and so aggressive...
Obama sticks his neck out for labor; re-stocks NLRB
Date: Jan-20-2012
WASHINGTON – President Obama has received his share of criticism from organized labor for not standing up to suport…organized labor. But on Jan. 4, Obama opened himself up to charges...
Right-to-work effort in Indiana raises stakes in Michigan
Date: Jan-20-2012
LANSING – Will right-to-work in Michigan follow the path of New Hampshire, Indiana – or will Michigan blaze its own trail? Public pressure in New Hampshire last year managed to...
Another big check for asbestos research
Date: Jan-06-2012
DETROIT – The Heat and Frost Insulators and their contractors are showing that when it comes to finding a cure or improved treatments for asbestos-related diseases, they’re in the effort...
Labor gets ready to rumble over GOP’s anticipated right-to-work plans
Date: Jan-06-2012
LANSING – Organized labor has little to show for its battles with state Republican lawmakers in 2011, in the effort to stop the GOP’s steady stream of anti-worker legislation. The...
Labor helps soften some of the sharpest workers’ comp changes
Date: Jan-06-2012
By J. Timothy Esper LANSING – Michigan Republicans granted the Christmas wishes of HB 5002’s business backers by enacting their phantom wages workers’ comp bill, signed by Gov. Snyder on Dec. 19. ...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jan-06-2012
State’s jobs picture a bit brighter Michigan’s construction industry didn’t have too much to brag about during much of the fourth quarter of 2011, but compared to other states, it...