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NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Apr-16-2010
‘Staggering’ job losses in construction It’s difficult to say what makes the Monroe area stand out like a sore thumb, but the city is tops on the dubious list of...
Obama picks two union supporters for NLRB panel
Date: Apr-16-2010
President Obama hasn’t exactly endeared himself to the labor movement over his unwillingness to push labor’s top legislative priority, the Employee Free Choice Act. But on March 27, he did...
Something in the water? Washtenaw Co. will now host Iron Workers, too
Date: Apr-16-2010
ANN ARBOR – Now, the Iron Workers are coming. For more than two decades, Washtenaw Community College has been the facility of choice for the United Association of Plumbers, Pipe...
Bankers hold construction industry hostage
Date: Apr-02-2010
Not a week goes by where I am not approached by a consortium or an individual corporation that has concrete plans for the construction of some type of major facility...
‘Don’t take the simple things for granted’ Ashley improving, gets to go home
Date: Apr-02-2010
This has been a horrible year for Ashley Yost, but it’s starting to turn the corner. The Plumbers, Steamfitters and HVACR Service Technicians Local 85 apprentice was critically injured in...
New health care law offers good and bad, but much of the same
Date: Apr-02-2010
The health care revision is law, though implementation will take quite a while. We still think that it lacks meaningful cost controls – except for a commission that could ride...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Apr-02-2010
Trumka: jobs bill is a ‘good start’ WASHINGTON (PAI) – The small, $15 billion jobs bill that a bipartisan Senate majority approved, 68-29, on March 17, is “a good start,”...
OSHA warns 15,000 firms about Job health, safety problems
Date: Apr-02-2010
WASHINGTON (PAI)–The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has warned 15,000 firms nationwide that their job safety and health records are bad enough to warrant closer federal scrutiny — and it’s...
Solution for WSU’s Chemistry Department: Renovate labs, add more space, too
Date: Apr-02-2010
DETROIT – While the world of science has expanded its knowledge base just a little since the 1960s, facilities and infrastructure at Wayne State University’s Chemistry Building have changed very...
Union leaders hail passage of health care overhaul
Date: Apr-02-2010
WASHINGTON (PAI) – Union leaders hailed the final passage of the health care overhaul, but AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka warned the fight isn’t over yet. That’s because Congress spent...