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Raleigh Studios ready to roll
Date: May-06-2011
PONTIAC – Walbridge, their subcontractors and the building trades have finished their construction roles at the Raleigh Michigan Studios complex. Next on stage: the people who make movies. Design-builder Walbridge...
Unions ‘instrumental’ in building middle class
Date: May-06-2011
By Sander Levin, U.S. Congress - 12th District) The king can do no wrong. I first heard that maxim when I was a young labor lawyer in Michigan in the...
Don’t think there’s a Republican vendetta against unions? Hmm, let’s take a look around
Date: Apr-22-2011
If it were a football game, we’d call it “piling on.” Emboldened by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s blatant effort to bust that state’s public employee unions, conservative lawmakers from around...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Apr-22-2011
Federal regulation can be good for jobs WASHINGTON (PAI) – With Right Wing Republicans in Congress and the states aiming to trash federal and state regulations on everything from clean...
Rally reminds Republicans labor still a force ‘Union busting has brought us solidarity like never before’
Date: Apr-22-2011
LANSING – Union members and their supporters, led by a large building trades contingent, once again took to the front steps and lawn of the State Capitol Building on April...
Small glimmers of hope in construction employment
Date: Apr-22-2011
As the nation emerges from the Great Recession, Michigan has been one of the leaders among the states in the modest upswing in construction employment over the past year. Now,...
Union leaders confront political dilemma
Date: Apr-22-2011
(By Mark Gruenberg, PAI Staff Writer) WASHINGTON (PAI) – Union leaders, meeting April 13 in D.C., spent their time confronting a political dilemma: What do you do when your supposed...
Will union-busting be the spark to re-ignite the labor movement?
Date: Apr-22-2011
With the building trades and the rest of organized labor being attacked all over the country, AFL-CIO Building Trades Department President Mark Ayers provided his point of view to the...
Yoopers put a bug in their ear, too
Date: Apr-22-2011
MARQUETTE – Supporters of working families from across the Upper Peninsula converged on the U.P.’s largest city on April 13 to make their voices heard about the anti-labor rhetoric and...
AFL-CIO, chamber link up for infrastructure bank bill
Date: Apr-08-2011
WASHINGTON (PAI) – The AFL-CIO and its normal enemy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, joined together March 16 to back a bipartisan bill establishing a national infrastructure bank. The bank...