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Prevailing wage repeal: we've heard this bad song before
Date: Jan-20-2017
LANSING - A push to overturn Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 died in 2016, when a petition drive's sponsors likely pulled a rug out from under the expensive drive...
State adopts new energy package that, surprisingly, is well-liked by everybody
Date: Jan-06-2017
By Marty Mulcahy Editor LANSING - It took until the wee hours of the morning of the last legislative session of the year, but state lawmakers finally came up with...
Trades drive auto show setup
Date: Jan-06-2017
By Marty Mulcahy Editor DETROIT - Every year in early January, the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) gives the world a look at the latest in automotive design and...
A lame, lame duck session... But 2017 offers GOP a fresh start for attacking labor unions
Date: Jan-06-2017
By Marty Mulcahy Editor LANSING - As it has been for the past six years of total Republican control in our state's capitol, the state of organized labor in Michigan...
Happily, end of year lawmaking ignores unions
Date: Jan-06-2017
By Ron Beiber President, Michigan AFL-CIO Lame duck sessions are when bad bills happen to good people. That’s been true in Michigan after every major election since Rick Snyder took...
Trades expand St. Mary's cement plant
Date: Jan-06-2017
CHARLEVOIX - The cement market is solid - so St. Mary's Cement in Charlevoix is in the process of expanding their plant's annual capacity from 1.4 million tons to 2...
Meet Labor nominee Puzder: Champion of the low-pay, no OT workforce.
Date: Jan-06-2017
(From the IBEW) President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Andrew Puzder, the chief executive officer of CKE -- owner of Carl’s Jr. and Hardees - to be the U.S. Secretary of...
News Briefs
Date: Jan-06-2017
2016 construction up, down, and flat The U.S. construction industry is continuing to grind its gears. Dodge Data and Analytics reported on Dec. 22 that new U.S. construction starts in November...
Infrastructure shortfall amounts to $4 billion per year in Michigan
Date: Dec-16-2016
LANSING - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's 21st Century Infrastructure Commission Report, released Dec. 4, highlights a state that is chronically underfunding and ignoring upkeep of its roads, bridges, water, sewer...
Major upgrades at Ann Arbor sewage plant near end of the line
Date: Dec-16-2016
By Marty Mulcahy Editor ANN ARBOR - Out of sight, out of mind. That's been the typical attitude by community leaders across the nation as they consider replacement or rehabilitation...