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Insulators sustain Breath of Life Foundation

Date: Dec-25-2015

Established in 2009, the Breath of Life Foundation is a collaborative effort of the Central States Insulation Association, the Central States Conference of the International Association of Heat and Frost...

News Briefs

Date: Dec-25-2015

Lump of coal for Menard's CEO From the AFL-CIO We thought we'd seen everything in the book of tricks used by management to prevent workers from organizing on the job,...

Reboot on prevailing wage repeal petition now under way

Date: Dec-25-2015

Viewpoint The incompetent Las Vegas petition circulators are out. Coming soon to a mall parking lot or a gas station near you will be newly hired signature gatherers from a...

TPP pact brimming with distractions, U.S. job losses

Date: Dec-25-2015

By Leo W. Gerard President, United Steelworkers Middle America is smoldering. For too long, average citizens worked harder and produced more, yet corporations cut pay and benefits, off-shore community-sustaining factories,...

Trades build new shelter dedicated to four-legged friends

Date: Dec-25-2015

DETROIT - The Michigan Humane Society's Detroit shelter has been housed in a former piston ring factory since the late 1920s. It's safe to say that the building is inadequate...

Trades support made in Michigan strategy for power production

Date: Dec-25-2015

LANSING - Over the past decade, the subject of regulating and de-regulating Michigan's power industry has never really gone away. Passage of Public Act 295 in 2008 established the state's...

Unions win with 'Cadillac Tax' delay

Date: Dec-25-2015

By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI)—Workers scored a win in Congress as lawmakers decided to delay imposing the so-called “Cadillac tax” on high-value health care plans - like...

Alpine natural gas plant rises in northern Michigan

Date: Dec-11-2015

ELMIRA TWP. — More power production for Michigan is on the way, in the form of a new natural gas-fired power plant that is taking shape in this community west...

Dems need to lead in dumping it, or face reprisals at the polls

Date: Dec-11-2015

By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer LAS VEGAS (PAI)—Unite Here union President D. Taylor is warning Democratic defenders of the Affordable Care Act to dump its looming “Cadillac" Tax on...

News Briefs

Date: Dec-11-2015

Building trades endorse Clinton WASHINGTON, DC -- North America's Building Trades, the umbrella group for all the construction unions, on Dec. 3 formally endorsed Hillary Clinton's campaign for president. "In...