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Republican filibusters kill jobs bill, jobless benefits, too
Date: Jul-09-2010
WASHINGTON (PAI) – Two separate Republican filibusters on June 24 and June 30 blocked extended jobless benefits for the nation’s unemployed, putting money for millions of jobless workers in limbo...
Carpenters announce return to Michigan Building Trades
Date: Jun-25-2010
The leadership of the Michigan Regional Carpenters Council (MRCC) has opted to end a 14-year split and re-affiliate with the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, effective immediately. In a...
Immigration reform? First step should be to halt traffic in ‘cheap, easily exploitable labor’
Date: Jun-25-2010
The current firestorm that has erupted as a result of the enactment of the “Show Me Your Papers” law in Arizona has further enflamed the already contentious debate about illegal...
Insulators promote cancer research at Karmanos
Date: Jun-25-2010
DETROIT – When it comes to early detection of and getting treating for asbestos-related diseases, the Karmanos Cancer Center has the seal of approval of the International Association of Heat...
New Karn plant vacuum system will better clean its emissions
Date: Jun-25-2010
HAMPTON TWP. – Consumers Energy’s Karn-Weadock Generating Complex – which has employed thousands of building trades workers performing various projects over the past few decades – is playing the host...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Jun-25-2010
End the talk:build the bridge Let’s build the bridge. A proposal to build a new suspension bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario has been studied and debated for years, It’s...
OSHA to publicly shame job safety violators
Date: Jun-25-2010
(PAI) – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration “will use not just our normal inspection system, but regulation by shaming” against notorious job safety and health violators, its administrator says....
Rocky road ahead for our ‘not normal’ economy
Date: Jun-25-2010
WASHINGTON (PAI) – The recession is officially over, but the nation is in a so-called economic recovery that “only a statistician could love,” with long-tem unemployment, way more job-seekers than...
Double whammy…Consumers suspends plans to build $1.2 billion powerhouse
Date: Jun-11-2010
BAY CITY – Consumers Energy announced May 27 that it has shut down plans for the development of a new 830-megawatt clean coal power plant that it planned to have...
‘Fragile’ construction seeks to gain some footing
Date: Jun-11-2010
Construction analysts predicted a see-saw ride for the industry as it emerges from the Great Recession, and that’s just what we’re getting. On June 1, the Associated General Contractors of...