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MI Supreme Court maintains legal path for injured workers
Date: May-02-2008
LANSING - A recently settled personal injury case for an injured electrician showed, if nothing else, that the Michigan Supreme Court moves in mysterious ways. The majority of justices on...
News Briefs
Date: May-02-2008
Ypsilanti highlights school elections Local boards of education preside over the spending of billions in construction every year in Michigan. Some of it goes union, much of it doesn't -...
Trades creating a bigger Big House
Date: May-02-2008
By Mark Breslin ANN ARBOR - It's first and ten for the expansion of Michigan Stadium, a project which will extend over three years and result in dramatic changes in...
Unions show off May 16-18 in Detroit
Date: May-02-2008
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer Union members, their families and the general public are invited to attend what may be the final America-at-Work Union Industries Show, slated for the...
Anti-union bias in U.S. isn't the norm worldwide
Date: Apr-18-2008
By Mark Breslin "In no other developed country do employers routinely fight to the death efforts by their employees to form a union." That's the finding of Dr. John Logan,...
Brits see U.S. anti-unionism 'in a different league'
Date: Apr-18-2008
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer When European labor experts look at the state of union organizing and collective bargaining in the United States, they often are appalled. "You may...
GOP lawmaker makes right-to-work pitch to Michigan businesses
Date: Apr-18-2008
LANSING - The effort to institute a right-to-work (RTW) law in Michigan is heating up. With legislation that would make Michigan a right-to-work state completely bottled up in the Democratic-led...
News Briefs
Date: Apr-18-2008
Prevailing wage law eases into Eaton County CHARLOTTE - In some communities, getting a prevailing wage law adopted is like pulling teeth. Not so in Eaton County, located southwest of...
Our industry needs to redefine role in education
Date: Apr-18-2008
By Mark Breslin If you surveyed a hundred sets of parents in society today and asked them what success looks like for their children, what answer would you get? If...
Trades check in to create new Fort Shelby Hotel
Date: Apr-18-2008
DETROIT - After 90 years of use and abuse, the Fort Shelby Hotel is undergoing an unlikely renovation. With the roof open to the elements - there were trees growing...