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U.S. construction: slow growth, but 'generally healthy market'
Date: Nov-04-2016
Michigan isn't No. 1 any more among the states in construction jobs creation. Lately, we're closer to No. 41. In recent years the national building environment has been described as...
Clinton in Toledo: 'We believe everyone should have the right to join a strong union that will always have your back'
Date: Oct-21-2016
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer Again reiterating that she stands with workers and unions, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton linked honest work and honest pay with the right...
Election year another chance to advance for labor
Date: Oct-21-2016
Like people in the other 49 states, Michigan voters will go to the polls on Nov. 8 and likely the first thing on their mind is who gets their vote...
Little Caesars Arena: Hot 'N Getting Ready
Date: Oct-21-2016
It's beginning to look a lot like... a hockey stadium along Woodward Avenue in Detroit, as Little Caesars Arena takes shape less than one year before it will open as...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-21-2016
Extensive renovation needed inside Capitol Last year, masons, painters and sheet metal workers working under Christman Construction extensively renovated the exterior of the State of Michigan Capitol Building, making long-overdue...
New sick leave rule to benefit millions
Date: Oct-21-2016
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer New pro-worker rules, announced in late September and the beginning of October by Obama administration agencies, have the potential to benefit millions of workers...
NLRB legal chief: Let's define what makes a strike, a strike
Date: Oct-21-2016
When fast food workers walk off the job for an hour, and then do it again months later, are those brief strikes legally protected under labor law? How about when...
Next idea for pension reform: Congress introduces new 'composite' plans
Date: Oct-07-2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The "Do-Nothing Congress" has generally earned its nickname over the past several years. But when it comes to throwing a lifeline to the nation's struggling pension plans,...
No easy road for saving failing pension plans By Paul O. Catenacci, Esq. Novara Tesija PLLC
Date: Oct-07-2016
Editor's note: On May 6, 2016, a U.S. Treasury Department mediator rejected a huge proposed cut in retirement payouts for hundreds of thousands of workers tied to the woefully underfunded...
A.G. Scheutte signs on to lawsuit to remove overtime protections
Date: Oct-07-2016
LANSING –Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette (R) on Sept. 15 signed onto a lawsuit with 21 states to stop the Obama Administration’s new overtime rule, which would extend mandatory overtime...