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State releases first Local Jobs money
Date: Aug-04-2006
LANSING -Michigan is granting $44 million to help 47 counties and 49 cities obtain more than $279 million in federal transportation funds under the state's Jobs Today program. The money...
State's second ethanol plant fuels bounty of work for trades
Date: Aug-04-2006
ALBION - Michigan is the home of auto plants, coke ovens, blast furnaces and mining operations, each of which have their own particular catch-phrases and buzz-words. The same holds true...
Supervisor in name only: Union rights of 8 million workers at stake
Date: Aug-04-2006
By Ross Eisenbrey & Lawrence Mishel Economic Policy Institute The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will soon decide three cases, known collectively as the Kentucky River cases, which could change...
Fort-Shelby ready, too?
Date: Jul-21-2006
DETROIT - While we're at it, how about renovating the Pick-Fort-Shelby Hotel, too? As witnessed by the Book-Cadillac, financing deals for old and decrepit hotel properties are chancey. But in...
Get a room…Trades ready to renovate historic hotels
Date: Jul-21-2006
DETROIT - Three years ago this month, a festive press conference was held aside the shell of the Book-Cadillac hotel, proclaiming "The Next Chapter" was about to be turned on...
More supervisors = fewer union members: NLRB weighs rules on classifying workers
Date: Jul-21-2006
Have you ever shown a co-worker how to perform a task, or been asked to look over someone else's work? If so, your freedom to form a union and bargain...
New and improved: NMU's Meyland Hall
Date: Jul-21-2006
MARQUETTE - Upgraded housing for students at Northern Michigan University is in the works. This summer, much of the renovation work is focusing on 40-year-od Meyland Hall, a 58,000-square-foot student...
News Briefs
Date: Jul-21-2006
Tentative pact for UA Local 636 As we went to press, a tentative agreement had been reached between members of Detroit Pipe Fitters, Steamfitters, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Service Local...
NMU'S Jacobetti Center to house apprenticeship programs
Date: Jul-21-2006
MARQUETTE - In an agreement inked June 27 between the Michigan State Building and Construction Trades Council and Northern Michigan University, apprenticeship programs for five skilled trades will be moved...
OSHA delays, worker safety denied
Date: Jul-21-2006
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is responsible for protecting the safety and health of workers in the United States, but its own reports indicate that setting safety standards is...