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This Book starts a little slow…
Date: Nov-10-2006
DETROIT - If there are any more structural or logistical skeletons in the closets of the massive Book-Cadillac hotel - where a $180 million renovation project is ramping up -...
Workplace injuries, illness down a bit; construction still leads
Date: Nov-10-2006
WASHINGTON (PAI) - The rate of workplace injuries and illnesses declined slightly in 2005, the Labor Department reported, citing numbers from the the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) The BLS...
8.2% rise in drug costs is (don't gag) a good thing
Date: Oct-27-2006
In an era of seemingly never-ending health care cost increases, there's some good news from an annual survey of prescription drug prices. But don't get the impression that your medicine...
Get out the vote effort is job one for unions on Election Day, Nov. 7
Date: Oct-27-2006
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Almost four million phone calls, and counting. Between two-to-three million informational mailings. And unionists by the tens of thousands, from international presidents to unaffiliated members, walking neighborhoods...
Help wanted: We share responsibility for our political future
Date: Oct-27-2006
By John Sweeney AFL-CIO President Look at the problems working families are facing in this country - at the challenges to our values, to a middle-class life, to our national...
High scrap iron prices create new value for old cement kiln
Date: Oct-27-2006
It's a sign of the times when the high price of scrap metal contributes to employment in the building trades. St. Mary's Cement is sponsoring a project to dismantle a...
Jury still out on effect of NLRB's anti-union supervisor decision
Date: Oct-27-2006
WASHINGTON - The Oct. 3 NLRB ruling that could deny union rights to eight million U.S. workers "may have far-reaching and adverse effects" on unionized construction workers, according to a...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-27-2006
Michigan hit by high cost of free trade "Corporations, politicians and economists frequently claim that trade and U.S. investment in China create jobs and many other benefits for our economy....
Building trades' signs say 'Granholm'
Date: Oct-13-2006
MARQUETTE - At some bees, old ladies make quilts. At others, middle-aged men get together and assemble political signs. Such was the case at a "work-bee" sponsored last month by...
Chamber's plan to kill SBT shifts burden to taxpayers
Date: Oct-13-2006
LANSING - If you think the pending elimination of the Michigan Single Business Tax (SBT) couldn't affect you - you've got another thing coming. That other thing could take the...