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Construction ‘mired in its own depression’
Date: Feb-05-2010
The hits just keep on coming. Nearly 90 percent of U.S. construction contractors say there will be no recovery in 2010. That was the major finding of a national construction...
Major drop for union membership in 2009
Date: Feb-05-2010
WASHINGTON (PAI)–The number of union members nationwide declined by 771,000 in 2009, to 15.33 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. That wiped out numerical gains of the prior two...
Michigan construction fatalities see an all-time low in’09
Date: Feb-05-2010
LANSING – Ten construction workers in Michigan died on the job in 2009, an historic low since MIOSHA has kept count since the agency came into existence in 1974. There...
Michigan’s miserable, but we’ve got company
Date: Feb-05-2010
For the first time since the start of the Great Recession, every state and the District of Columbia reported losing construction jobs over the 12 months leading up to December...
New patient tower in service at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
Date: Feb-05-2010
ANN ARBOR – The second of two new patient towers was handed over to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital last month, nearly completing a major transformation of the patient experience at...
News Briefs
Date: Feb-05-2010
Labor wants bigger jobs bill, Stimulus II WASHINGTON (PAI) – Key senators are drafting a jobs bill that’s worth half as much as the one the House passed in December...
Supreme Court opens door for flood of campaign finance cash
Date: Feb-05-2010
WASHINGTON (PAI) – By a 5-4 margin, an ideologically split U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 21 threw out many restrictions on financing political campaigns – including limits on corporate and...
Employee Free Choice Act: ‘It has to be this year…’
Date: Jan-22-2010
WASHINGTON – (PAI) In an interview with Press Associates Union News Service, AFL-CIO Legislative Director Bill Samuel said a vote on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) “it has to...
Labor isn’t going to accept a bad bill” Oh really? A viewpoint by by Press Associates Union News Service
Date: Jan-22-2010
“We aren’t going to accept a bad bill just to get an agreement,” AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka said on Jan. 11 of the Senate’s health care revision bill. Sorry,...
News Briefs
Date: Jan-22-2010
Big dip for wages in construction The Great Recession has caught up with construction wages and benefits – and how. Construction industry collective bargaining agreements in 2009 often brought about...