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High Court ruling advances Indian casinos
Date: Jun-22-2007
(From Michigan Construction News.com) A Michigan Supreme Court ruling tossing out a challenge by TOMAC ("Taxpayers Of Michigan Against Casinos") will allow the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo Township...
News Briefs
Date: Jun-22-2007
Construction lags jobless numbers LANSING - Michigan's construction and manufacturing industries acted as anchors for the state's jobless numbers, which overall had some good news, dropping two-tenths of a percentage...
Outage results in extreme makeover at Consumers' J.H. Campbell plant
Date: Jun-22-2007
PORT SHELDON TWP. -The population of this small town on the Lake Michigan shoreline grew by up to 1,400 from last November through March, as the building trades, their contractors...
Reduced work zone speeds are working
Date: Jun-22-2007
In 2005, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) considered ways to attack the increasing problem of tragic work zone crashes. Its "Where Workers Present 45" campaign seems to have made...
Veto threat aside, Senate Dems to move on key organizing bill
Date: Jun-22-2007
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - The Senate was scheduled to vote on June 20 on whether to cut off a two-day Republican filibuster against the Employee...
ABC never fails to disappoint - and they're at it again
Date: Jun-08-2007
Tradesman Viewpoint If you operate a construction company that relies on temporary workers whose citizenship is frequently found to be a "gray area" - then you probably share the goals...
An update on the rights of asbestos victims, and how they've been wronged
Date: Jun-08-2007
By Michael B. Serling On April 17 I had the distinct honor of addressing the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council in Lansing. The occasion was their 48th Annual Legislative...
Cerebral palsy bike run set for July 28
Date: Jun-08-2007
The second annual Benjamin Franklin Memorial Poker Run will be held starting at with registration at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 28 at the Lansing Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local...
Laborer rails against OSHA's waiting room
Date: Jun-08-2007
A workplace hazard at popcorn plants, of all places, was used to illustrate OSHA's agonizingly slow process of setting safety standards on the job. Speaking on behalf of workers and...
Labor pushes for workers' rights in Immigration debate
Date: Jun-08-2007
The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has grown to nearly 5 percent of the U.S. working population, or 12 million workers, according to a report last year by...