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The Employee Free Choice Act
Date: Aug-22-2008
Don't fall for the big lie about labor's top priority By Bill McCarthy President, Minneapolis Labor Federation and Press Associates MINNEAPOLIS (PAI) - In recent weeks, you may have seen...
Think Ford's first: Masons renovate façade at Ford's Piquette plant
Date: Aug-22-2008
In many areas of the old Ford Piquette plant you still see and smell the oil that workers who built Henry Ford's first cars spilled onto the maple floor years...
Trade deficit with China a U.S. jobs killer
Date: Aug-22-2008
WASHINGTON (PAI) - China's trade surplus with the U.S., created by undervalued currency, low pay for Chinese workers and a deliberate drive for industrial exports, has cost the U.S. economy...
Wanted: a president who wants government to work for U.S. workers
Date: Aug-22-2008
By Mark Ayers President Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO Commentary MINNEAPOLIS (PAI) - In recent weeks, you may have seen ads on TV or news releases or letters to...
'Broken business model'? Contracts need new focus on training, market share
Date: Aug-08-2008
By Mark Breslin (Another in a series) The time has come for labor and management to get real. Across this country union construction has lost most of its market share,...
News Briefs
Date: Aug-08-2008
Maintain pressure on sanitation bill LANSING - The state's lawmakers are on their summer hiatus, but that doesn't mean they don't check their e-mail, read letters or get phone messages....
Obama: 'I'll sign EFCA'
Date: Aug-08-2008
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - Prospective Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told more than 2,500 union leaders nationwide that "we can't do it without...
Pipe trades workers set sail on Lake Huron
Date: Aug-08-2008
PORT HURON - Strong winds made for some fast times in the 84th Bayview Port Huron to Mackinac Sailboat Race held on July 12-13, and along for the ride on...
Rally seeks to spark new attention for Employee Free Choice Act
Date: Aug-08-2008
By Joe Hoshaw Staff Writer The Employee Free Choice Act has been stalled in Congress for more than a year now, and unions throughout Michigan are redoubling their efforts to...
Trades on track for Fabiano
Date: Aug-08-2008
MONITOR TWP. - Some 200,000 square-feet of concrete has been poured for the floor, the concrete walls are up, and the new Fabiano Brothers Inc. beverage distribution facility is on...