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Laborers launch campaign to get America moving on infrastructure construction
Date: Jun-13-2008
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Calling rebuilding America a bipartisan and nonpartisan issue, the Laborers have launched a massive grass-roots campaign to mobilize both unionists and citizens in favor of dedicated, massive...
Marathon job fair another step toward start of $1.9 billion project
Date: Jun-13-2008
Check off another requirement as "done" in advance of construction on the Marathon Petroleum Co.'s $1.9 billion Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project. To conform with City of Detroit guidelines, all...
News Briefs
Date: Jun-13-2008
New options for getting jobless $ LANSING - The State of Michigan has begun offering unemployed workers two new electronic options for receiving their unemployment benefits. The new options are...
With primaries over, unions start planning fall campaign
Date: Jun-13-2008
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - With the Democratic and Republican primaries over, and with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) their parties' presumed presidential...
A column about safety training on the job, or 'When I Was an Idiot'
Date: May-30-2008
By Mark Breslin Twelfth in a Series I'm sure that some people will disagree with the past tense in the title of this article…but in recognition of my previous sins,...
News Briefs
Date: May-30-2008
ENR ranks nation's top contractors One barometer of our state's building climate is the revenue ranking of Michigan's largest construction contractors. The rankings (by earnings) for all U.S.-based general contractors...
Special interest group? History shows unions are good for America
Date: May-30-2008
Editor's note: Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is seen as the single most important issue for organized labor after the November elections. Passage of the Act is expected...
Toilet legislation for construction sites starts to move
Date: May-30-2008
LANSING - With a little pressure from the building trades, this may be the best chance yet to improve the sanitary conditions on Michigan's construction sites. In past years this...
Union Industries show gone, probably for good
Date: May-30-2008
DETROIT - The three-day Union Industry Show made a return engagement to Cobo Center May 16-18, showcasing services and products by organized labor. It was a bittersweet event: scores of...
Unions good for American wages, too, study reveals
Date: May-30-2008
WASHINGTON - "Economic data have long demonstrated a substantial wage premium for unionized workers" - on the order of 10 to 20 percent - for average U.S. workers, said a...