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Our nation needs teeth in its labor law
Date: Mar-03-2017
By Mark Gruenberg Press Associates Once again, Congress’ ruling Republicans are attacking the National Labor Relations Board, and, by implication, the 1935 Wagner Act, formally known as the National Labor...
Price hikes hammering construction industry
Date: Mar-03-2017
The cost of materials and services used in the nation's construction industry rose markedly faster than the price of completed buildings, according to a new analysis of federal producer price...
BLS: union numbers, share declined in 2016
Date: Feb-17-2017
WASHINGTON (PAI)--The number of union members and their share of the U.S. workforce both declined in 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculated. Union share had gone up slightly in...
GOP House majority rushes to halt future pro-worker rules
Date: Feb-17-2017
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Not content with trying to dump pro-worker regulations by the prior Democratic Obama administration – either one by one or in huge batches – the GOP U.S. House majority...
Local 557's Revard named IBEW's apprentice of the year
Date: Feb-17-2017
SAGINAW - IBEW Local 557 apprentice Howard Revard has been named the International Union's Apprentice of the Year for 2016. Revard, 26, is a fourth-year apprentice who currently works for...
News Briefs
Date: Feb-17-2017
Don't let the door hit you, Betsy The Trump Administration's gain is Michigan's loss - err gain, too. Betsy Devos, the Grand Rapids billionaire who is President Trump's pick for Education...
Nice start of the year for construction jobs, wages
Date: Feb-17-2017
The U.S. construction industry year got off to a good start in 2017, as employment increased by 36,000 jobs in January, reaching the highest level since November 2008. The Associated...
Political shift leads to anti-worker bills raising their heads in Congress
Date: Feb-17-2017
WASHINGTON (PAI) — Suddenly, a national right-to-work law isn't very far-fetched. And neither is repeal of the federal Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law. A clutch of right wing congressional Republicans reintroduced...
Pork processor Clemens Foods builds big with Coldwater plant
Date: Feb-17-2017
COLDWATER TWP. - Michigan lost its last pork processing facility in 1998. But in 2017, the industry is about to return, big-time. Pennsylvania-based Clemens Food Group, alongside leading design-build firm...
Prevailing wage repeal No. 1, again, on GOP priority list
Date: Feb-03-2017
LANSING - The prevailing wage repeal zombies are back in the Michigan Legislature. They never really went away. With the entire state government having been firmly in control of ultra-conservative...