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Prevailing wage laws strengthen worker safety
Date: Aug-18-2017
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Trades endorse Whitmer for Michigan governor
Date: Aug-18-2017
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Trades getting busy on new particle board plant
Date: Aug-18-2017
GRAYLING - The most modern particle board plant in North America - and the largest of its kind globally - is going up on mostly former forested land here along...
DTE proposes new gas-fired plant
Date: Aug-18-2017
EAST CHINA TWP. - DTE Energy has filed a Certificate of Necessity with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MSPC), seeking to build a new natural gas-fired power plant of about...
News Briefs
Date: Aug-18-2017
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Big money pushing for prevailing wage repeal
Date: Aug-04-2017
It costs big money to organize and hire people to get 252,000 signatures in a 180-day period. It costs big money to fight that effort, too. Citing fundraising numbers submitted...
Hardware, wigs, sewing machines... Shinola Hotel next for Woodward site
Date: Aug-04-2017
DETROIT - Anything goes when it comes to rehabilitating old buildings into new uses. So it goes with the block at and just north of 1400 Woodward in Detroit, where...
Labor board tilts against nation's workers (From the IBEW Media Center)
Date: Aug-04-2017
The National Labor Relations Board is about to shift dramatically in favor of big corporations, as two controversial Donald Trump appointees cleared Senate committee hurdles on July 19. Trump’s NLRB...
News Briefs
Date: Aug-04-2017
17-year low for MI jobless rate LANSING - Michigan's unemployment rate dropped to 3.8 percent in June, the state's lowest jobless rate since 2000, the state announced July 19. The...
No action yet on anti-lying legislation for petitioners
Date: Aug-04-2017
LANSING — Michigan House Democratic Whip Jeremy Moss (D-Southfield) and state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. (D-East Lansing) introduced legislation on May 22 that would amend Michigan election law to prohibit...