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With prevailing wage, Minnesota succeeds where Michigan, neighbors failed
Date: Aug-10-2018
Editor's note: On June 6, the state Legislature repealed the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act, thus joining neighboring Indiana and Wisconsin in a "club" that no state should want to belong...
Clean team: Post builds space to heighten their food safety
Date: Jul-27-2018
BATTLE CREEK - In an era of when outbreaks of salmonella and other types of food-borne illnesses somewhere in the U.S. are a common subject on nightly newscasts, Post Consumer...
Contractor profits take a hit as Trump's tariffs kick in
Date: Jul-27-2018
President Trump's trade wars are creating victims in the construction industry. As tariffs against foreign goods came into effect, construction costs accelerated again in June, the Associated General Contractors reported...
Federal loans seen as saving grace for multiemployer plans
Date: Jul-27-2018
DETROIT- About 400 union members packed the Teamsters Health and Welfare hall on July 20 as part of a "listening tour" by U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in an...
Good, bad and ugly ideas related to pension reform
Date: Jul-27-2018
WASHINGTON - A congressional committee is working on reforms to the multi-pronged crises and issues affecting the nation's multiemployer pension plans. A number of those pension plans are not in...
News Briefs
Date: Jul-27-2018
Labor no fan of Supreme Court pick Organized labor doesn’t like President Trump’s nominee to become the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, Brett Kavanaugh. It’s up to the U.S. Senate...
Rapping tinknocker wins top prize in video competition
Date: Jul-27-2018
Sheet Metal Workers Local 7 member Robert Ollett can bend and shape duct as well as any tinknocker. But when it comes to rapping about his craft and his union,...
Dems unveil legislation to make it easier for public workers to organize
Date: Jul-13-2018
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer Defiant union members and leaders vowed to fight back against the corporate class behind the Supreme Court’s Janus decision, by organizing even more, both...
ImPRESSive: Particleboard plant rises in Grayling
Date: Jul-13-2018
GRAYLING - Located along I-75 at M-72, the seat of Crawford County is quickly transforming from a small town, to a small town with a massive particleboard production plant. Undertaken...
Janus decision: GOP-named Supreme Court majority imposes right to work on public sector unions
Date: Jul-13-2018
WASHINGTON (PAI)—In a predictable and mean ruling, the five-justice Republican-named majority of the U.S. Supreme Court lowered the boom on unions representing state and local government workers, declaring every single...