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A New Trade Vision is Sorely Needed
Date: Jul-10-2015
By Leo Gerard President, United Steel Workers Editor's note: The U.S. House on June 25 gave final Congressional approval to the so-called Trade Promotion Bill, granting President Obama enhanced power...
News Briefs
Date: Jul-10-2015
Senate Passes Bill to Fix Roads LANSING – Well, half of the state's government now has a plan to fix the roads. The Michigan Senate on July 1, using a...
Obama Starts Push for Expanded Overtime pay
Date: Jul-10-2015
They say America needs a raise, and President Obama wants to give them one: more pay for about five million Americans, via a proposed change in federal rules that broadens...
Piling on: Yet another study questions 'benefits' of prevailing wage repeal
Date: Jul-10-2015
A petition is currently being circulated statewide seeking to repeal Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act, and if it's successful, would eliminate more than 11,000 jobs, reduce economic output in the state...
Signature takers are likely to say anything to get names
Date: Jul-10-2015
Petition signature gatherers who are stationed across Michigan this summer - asking registered voters to sign a petition intended to repeal the Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 - are likely...
Union Leaders laud Supreme Court on health care ruling
Date: Jul-10-2015
WASHINGTON (PAI) - By and large, union leaders applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling on June 25, keeping the Affordable Care Act’s federal individual payments for health care insurance...
What's On Tap- New Pipeline, Pumps, Key to new Water Plan
Date: Jul-10-2015
SANILAC CO. - A year from now, the spigots and faucets of residents of five communities north of I-69 are going to have a permanent conduit into Lake Huron. The...
Just one thing to know about prevailing wage repeal: Don't sign the petition!
Date: Jun-26-2015
Signature gatherers are expected to be fanning out across Michigan this summer, asking registered voters to sign a petition intended to repeal the Prevailing Wage Act of 1965. Backed...
Prevailing wage laws 'serve the interests of the public'
Date: Jun-26-2015
By Dr. Dale Belman Professor, Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations Although it would be polite to characterize the current effort in the Michigan legislature to repeal...
Second poll finds state has little appetite for prevailing wage repeal
Date: Jun-26-2015
LANSING - A great majority of the state's Republican lawmakers want to repeal the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act of 1965. A great majority of people in Michigan: perhaps, not so...