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Hockey arena takes shape with steel, pre-cast installation
Date: Mar-25-2016
DETROIT - The new Detroit Red Wings stadium is beginning to look like... an events center. After having made a deep, wide hole in the ground last summer and fall...
Hostile GOP assails Labor secretary over new worker rules
Date: Mar-25-2016
WASHINGTON (PAI)—While saying he wants to work with the Republican-run Congress during the last 10 months of his tenure, Obama Administration Labor Secretary Thomas Perez spent much of his time...
Lobbying, get-out-the-vote, member education provide targets for union trades
Date: Mar-25-2016
'Let them know you deserve to be paid what you're worth' LANSING - "It's a tough time for workers," said state Rep. Andy Schor (D-Lansing), in his welcoming remarks on...
News Briefs
Date: Mar-25-2016
Worker wage theft targeted by Dems In an attempt to curtail wage theft on the national level, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have introduced the Wage Theft...
Start spreading the word... Delegates, members urged to be ambassadors for Prevailing Wage Act
Date: Mar-25-2016
LANSING - Thwarting the ongoing effort to repeal Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 - as well as educating union members and the general public about the benefits of law...
State bills threaten mechanical licensing standards
Date: Mar-25-2016
LANSING - The folks at Vincent's Plumbing and Heating in Port Huron are pushing to fundamentally change decades of established, effective licensing regulations that govern the state's plumbing, electrical and...
'Strong demand' pushes construction employment higher
Date: Mar-25-2016
All in all, Michigan can't complain too much about the state of the state's construction industry employment. The rest of the nation can't complain much, either. Citing Labor Department data...
Annnd, action... good start for prevailing wage support effort
Date: Mar-11-2016
Petition gatherers have fanned out across Michigan, trying to collect 252,000 valid signatures in an effort to overturn the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act of 1965. The effort is backed by...
Benefit fund set up for family of Kalamazoo murder victims Rich and Tyler Smith
Date: Mar-11-2016
Among the six people murdered in the shooting spree in Kalamazoo on Feb. 20 were Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 357 member Rich Smith, 53, and his 17-year-old son, Tyler....
Lofty 'The Griswold' project rises atop parking structure
Date: Mar-11-2016
DETROIT - Converting old commercial buildings into new residential space isn't happening quickly enough downtown, as the demand for places to live is easily outstripping the supply. New residential space...