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Enough is enough? At the ballot box, unions can change our nation's course
Date: Oct-13-2006
By Dick Meister Politics, politics and almost nothing but politics. That's what we're hearing from America's unions these days. For they're waging one of the biggest and most expensive political...
Kennecott Mine clears hurdle
Date: Oct-13-2006
The Michigan Court of Appeals last month overturned a lower court ruling, clearing the way for the state Department of Environmental Quality to decide whether to issue a permit for...
Landmark case could dump union rights for 8 million workers
Date: Oct-13-2006
WASHINGTON (PAI) - By a 3-2 vote along party lines, the Bush-appointed GOP majority on the National Labor Relations Board expanded the definition of who is a "supervisor," throwing millions...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-13-2006
Wage levels take a hike A revised estimate of U.S. wage and benefit levels in the unionized construction industry predicts that first-year labor agreements in 2006 will increase 4.8 percent,...
U-M's Mosher-Jordan hall gets much-needed facelift inside
Date: Oct-13-2006
ANN ARBOR - Like so many other aged buildings on the University of Michigan campus, now it's the turn for a creaky old dormitory to be given new life by...
Bigger and better health care…St. John Providence tops out
Date: Sep-29-2006
NOVI - The first new hospital to be constructed in southeast Michigan in the last 20 years was topped out Aug. 31 - creating the second construction milestone for St....
Cyclical auto industry, not business taxes, is state's millstone, study says
Date: Sep-29-2006
LANSING - There's no denying that Michigan's job situation is dire, with a 7.1 percent jobless rate that is leading the nation. Job losses in our state - and why...
Expanding Sparrow Hospital goes west
Date: Sep-29-2006
LANSING - More than 200 Hardhats are putting their skills to work building the Sparrow Health System West Wing Addition, the largest construction project at the facility in two decades....
Labor seeks to ride the wave, help Dems take control of House
Date: Sep-29-2006
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - With the Nov. 7 general election fast approaching, there are two things you can say for certain about the 2006 campaign:...
Madame President - Local 58's president breaks gender barrier
Date: Sep-29-2006
Construction is still very much a man's world, with women workers comprising less than three percent of the industry's workforce. There aren't any statistics on the percentage of building trades...