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New MBS terminal takes off
Date: Jul-01-2011
FREELAND – Already a convenience to the residents of the Tri-Cities, MBS Airport is in the process of building a new, modern terminal to improve the traveling experience for air...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jul-01-2011
Bridge decision to wait until fall Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe) both said earlier this year that they would like to see quick movement...
NLRB proposes to ease union organizing rules
Date: Jul-01-2011
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on June 21 released proposed changes in the way union representation elections are conducted that the NLRB says will “reduce unnecessary barriers to the...
Trades’ bipartisan effort scores two big wins
Date: Jul-01-2011
(By Mark Gruenberg, PAI Staff Writer) WASHINGTON (PAI) – With a lot of grass-roots lobbying, help from pro-union contractors, and leadership from three pro-worker Republicans, the nation’s building trades unions...
Don’t pin productivity problems on workers, study says
Date: Jun-17-2011
How do you measure and improve construction worker productivity? Anyone who has spent 20 minutes watching a construction site quickly grasps what people who have been in the business 20...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jun-17-2011
Prevailing wage gets some GOP support Several states governed entirely by Republican lawmakers, including Michigan, seem poised to overturn statewide prevailing wage laws on taxpayer funded construction projects. But anti-prevailing...
Not much movement in May; jobless rate hits 16 percent
Date: Jun-17-2011
Construction employment was virtually unchanged in May as the industry added just 2,000 jobs for the month and the sector’s unemployment rate declined to 16.3 percent, according to an analysis...
Right-to-work is good for lowering wages, not much else
Date: Jun-17-2011
(By Gordon Lafer) With a few Republican-sponsored right-to-work bills waiting in the wings for legislative action in Lansing, organized labor is hoping the GOP won’t have the stomach for taking...
The truth about the U.S. economy: Broken social bargain with American workers led us down this path
Date: Jun-17-2011
(By Robert Reich, Fmr. U.S. Secretary of Labor) The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending...
Trades in full court press to renovate Crisler Arena
Date: Jun-17-2011
ANN ARBOR – Crisler Arena, home of the University of Michigan men’s basketball team, looks much as it did when it was completed in 1967. But now, like the neighboring...