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News Briefs
Date: Dec-24-2004
Lawmakers warn of pension problems WASHINGTON (PAI) – The federal agency that guarantees at least partial payment of traditional pensions when workers’ firms go broke is heading for the financial...
Recipes for revitalizing labor leave out key ingredient: members
Date: Dec-24-2004
By Harry Kelber For nearly 10 years, labor's brightest and most influential union leaders, including AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and the 51-member Executive Council, have grappled with the problem of...
'Supreme Court hears arguments: Can ABC bring lawsuit to overturn prevailing wage?
Date: Dec-24-2004
LANSING - No one ever accused the anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of being impatient, or unwilling to pay hefty legal bills, when it comes to the effort to...
House of labor to be rebuilt? And with straw, wood or brick?
Date: Dec-10-2004
America’s union leaders will be taking a very close look at their organizations when the AFL-CIO’s Executive Council meets in mid-February. The meeting could be momentous, and could lay the...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-10-2004
Modest growth for 2005 building The Portland Cement Association (PCA) predicts an overall construction industry growth rate of 2.9 percent in the U.S. in 2005. Such a jump would be...
Personal Protective Equipment, Who Pays? The MIOSHA View
Date: Dec-10-2004
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) enforces workplace safety and health regulations under authority of the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Act, Act 154 of 1974 as amended...
Ren Cen nearly a wrap
Date: Dec-10-2004
Nearly nine years after General Motors acquired the Renaissance Center for $75 million, the transformation of the five million square-foot complex into GM's headquarters is nearly complete. The final portion...
Slow release for Soo Locks money
Date: Dec-10-2004
SAULT STE. MARIE - Congress has been trickling out funds to build a new Soo lock in recent years, but a deluge of money is needed. In November, Congress released...
Stay a while: Wayne State invites students with new residence hall
Date: Dec-10-2004
Wayne State University, long known as a commuter college, wants a substantial number of its students to stop commuting. General contractor Walbridge-Aldinger, a slew of subcontractors and more than 200...
'This is what happens when you vote that way'
Date: Dec-10-2004
Overtime protection for millions is probably dead When he won the Nov. 2 election, President George W. Bush said he had earned “political capital” and expected to use it to...