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News Briefs
Date: May-22-2009
Work zone crashes drop 9 percent in Michigan Statewide highway work zone crashes in the 2008 construction season dropped 9 percent from the year before, according to data released May...
New sheriff at OSHA
Date: May-22-2009
Editor’s note: Following are comments by new Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who made what amounts to the first public “mission statement” for the direction of the Department of Labor under...
'OSHA lost its focus' - New chief ready to advocate for workers
Date: May-22-2009
Health and safety activist Jordan Barab assumed duties on April 13 as acting head of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). He will lead the agency until a...
Trades restore class to renovated schoolhouse
Date: May-22-2009
BELLEVILLE – There’s new life for an old one-room schoolhouse on the grounds of Willow Run Airport, where in the future, aviation education and history will be on the classroom’s...
College has new designs on revamped Argonaut Building
Date: May-08-2009
DETROIT – Walbridge and the building trades have made a veritable blank slate out of the massive Argonaut Building, and are ready to transform it into modern space for the...
Looks good for passage of PLA in Ingham County, Board chair says
Date: May-08-2009
MASON – Despite a lobbying campaign by the anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors, “it appears that there is support” by a majority of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners for...
News Briefs
Date: May-08-2009
UFCW re-starts anti-Wal-Mart effort WASHINGTON (PAI) – After a five-year break to take stock and launch a consumer revolt against anti-worker retailer Wal-Mart and its treatment of employees and customers,...
Right now is the right time to pass reforms to labor law
Date: May-08-2009
Labor law reform will pass in 2009. The time is right. The Employee Free Choice Act is the most significant labor law reform in our generation. It is critical to...
Right-to-work states aren't on right track, either
Date: May-08-2009
Economically, Michigan is as sick as they come. So would instituting a union-killing, wage-lowering right-to-work law open the door to new businesses and return the state to fiscal prosperity? Yes,...
Specter's move could bolster EFCA, other labor causes
Date: May-08-2009
The defection of a Republican Pennsylvania senator to the Democratic Party could have profound implications for the labor movement in the U.S. Or not. U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, 79, announced...