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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...