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NLRB cracks open door to more union organizing
Date: Jan-06-2012
WASHINGTON – The nation’s union movement achieved a rare victory on Dec. 21, when new rules were adopted by the National Labor Relations Board that will make it tougher for...
Snyder signs anti-worker reforms to unemployment, workers comp programs
Date: Jan-06-2012
LANSING – The end of the 2011 legislative session was as bad as the beginning, and the middle, for the state’s working class. On Dec. 19, Gov. Rick Snyder signed...
Trades transform Cobo Center
Date: Jan-06-2012
By Marty Mulcahy Managing Editor DETROIT – For years, city leaders have wrangled over how to expand and renovate the Cobo Conference and Exhibition Center. Built in 1960 and expanded...
Consumers Energy cancels construction of $2 billion coal plant
Date: Dec-16-2011
JACKSON – Consumers Energy announced Dec. 2 that is has canceled plans to construct a new baseload coal-burning power plant on the grounds of its existing Karn-Weadock plant near Bay...
Delays, denials: NLRB seeks a faster lane for union organizing
Date: Dec-16-2011
WASHINGTON D.C. – The anti-union fervor that permeates the vast majority of the Republican Party and the big business community has been brought front and center in a case that’s...
Economic woes lead back to broken bargain
Date: Dec-16-2011
For most of the last century, the basic bargain at the heart of the American economy was that employers paid their workers enough to buy what American employers were selling....
GOP’s ‘absurd’ workers’ comp reforms nearly set
Date: Dec-16-2011
LANSING – Anti-worker workers’ compensation reform measures pushed by state Republicans have separately passed both the Michigan House and Senate – but at press time, differences in the two bills...
New life for Chrysler Sterling brings new jobs for the trades
Date: Dec-16-2011
STERLING HEIGHTS – In mid-2009, the Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) was given a death sentence by its parent company – which itself was alive only through financial help...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Dec-16-2011
Young Joey would appreciate a card While you’re sending out Christmas cards this year, putting an extra one in the mail with a personal get-well wish would put a smile...
Capturing coal dust makes for cleaner Presque Isle plant
Date: Dec-02-2011
MARQUETTE – Wisconsin Energies imports about 1.6 million tons of coal every year at its Presque Isle Power Plant – but not quite all of it has made it to...