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What is ‘cap and trade’ anyway?
Date: Dec-04-2009
President Barack Obama is following on a campaign promise to impose caps on the emissions of greenhouse gases from primarily coal-burning power plants. He proposes reducing U.S. emissions 14% below...
Dreams of economic boon from green energy just blowin’ in the wind
Date: Nov-20-2009
There are no less than six proposals to build new coal-burning power plants in Michigan, and getting any one of them to start moving dirt would be a virtual lock...
It matters where things are made
Date: Nov-20-2009
By Rich Trumka AFL-CIO President To our nation’s peril, the free trade orthodoxy continues to ignore a fundamental economic fact: It matters where things are made. Over the past decade...
Lost time for swine flu prompts paid leave proposal
Date: Nov-20-2009
WASHINGTON (PAI) – As the threat of swine flu outbreaks forcing workers to stay home, unpaid, for long periods of time, the Obama administration is openly endorsing paid family and...
News Briefs
Date: Nov-20-2009
Congress extends jobless benefits WASHINGTON (PAI) – With unemployment expected to stay high at least through the first part of 2010, the Democratic-run Congress again extended jobless benefits. President Barack...
Rail bridges ease traffic through Spartan land
Date: Nov-20-2009
EAST LANSING – The building trades moved tons of earth out of the way, and then cleaned things up nicely in the effort to create a pair of railroad overpasses...
State highway repairs, jobs on the road to nowhere
Date: Nov-20-2009
LANSING – Unless there’s a sharp U-turn in Michigan’s economic fortunes, the state’s roads and bridges are course for further deterioration – and that’s a job-killer for the building trades....
ABC’s business model: Cheap, subservient workforce contributes to our race to the bottom
Date: Nov-06-2009
By Mark Ayers President AFL-CIO Building Trades Department Ever since I assumed the presidency of the Building and Construction Trades Department in October, 2007, I have been very aggressive in...
News Briefs
Date: Nov-06-2009
Public health option revived, for now WASHINGTON (PAI) – Labor’s strong campaign for comprehensive universal affordable health care racked up a preliminary win on Oct. 26 as congressional leaders inserted...
‘NLRB nominees one step closer to full OK
Date: Nov-06-2009
WASHINGTON (PAI) – President Barack Obama’s three nominees – two Democrats and one Republican – to fill vacant seats on the National Labor Relations Board are one step closer to...