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News Briefs
Date: Jul-22-2005
Nonunion workers on collapsed roof The jury is still out on why the roof collapsed on June 25 at the Capital Area Michigan Works office building. But one thing is...
Rally message: 'Finish the job'
Date: Jul-22-2005
LANSING - State legislators have some work to do to help Michigan workers, was the message sent by more than 1,200 union members and supporters who converged on the grounds...
Schools have trades seeing double
Date: Jul-22-2005
GRAND BLANC - Two schools are twice as nice in the Grand Blanc Community School District. The building trades and construction manager George W. Auch are immersed in the unique...
Family leave backers make pre-emptive strike to defend law
Date: Jul-08-2005
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Backers of the Family and Medical Leave Act - which labor helped push through Congress - are defending it against strong business lobbying to get GOP President...
New middle school rises in Flushing
Date: Jul-08-2005
FLUSHING - Rapid population growth has fueled numerous school building construction boomlets in some parts of Michigan. In other areas, like Genesee County's Flushing, population growth is stable or slow,...
News Briefs
Date: Jul-08-2005
Contractor barred from state jobs Lanzo Construction LLC is the first Michigan company to be barred from doing business with the state for ignoring safety standards and causing the 1999...
Senate panel rejects labor rights in CAFTA, passes bill
Date: Jul-08-2005
WASHINGTON (PAI) - One of organized labor's major problems with NAFTA,- the lack of enforceable foreign worker safety and wage protections - is now coming home to roost with CAFTA....
Trades, contractors seek pension relief
Date: Jul-08-2005
Financially, construction industry multi-employer pension plans are doing far better than their brethren on the single-employer side. But multi-employer plans are hardly the picture of good financial health, and now...
Trades' part of blitz to build Habitat homes
Date: Jul-08-2005
Last year, Habitat for Humanity International leaders selected neighborhoods in Benton Harbor and Detroit to host the group's signature Jimmy Carter Work Project, which took place June 19-24. Wholly dependent...
Union reporting rules upheld
Date: Jul-08-2005
WASHINGTON (PAI) - By a 3-0 vote, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia backed GOP Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in the AFL-CIO's lawsuit...