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Treatment facility upgrades keep water flowing - and safe
Date: Jun-26-2015
DEARBORN - When the sprawling Springwells Water Treatment Plant at 8300 W. Warren Avenue opened in 1935, it became the largest water treatment facility in the world. Eighty years later,...
Lansing lawmakers know best, say Lansing lawmakers
Date: Jun-26-2015
LANSING – Should state law trump local law when it comes to governments setting prevailing and minimum wages, sick time rules or other employee benefits? Among Michigan's ruling Republican lawmakers,...
Construction worker shortage? New survey still says, 'maybe'
Date: Jun-26-2015
When we last asked that question about six months ago following an industry survey by the Associated General Contractors, the answer was "maybe." It depended on geographic location, industry sector...
News Briefs
Date: Jun-26-2015
Who will fund prevailing wage ads? Indiana’s repeal of its common wage (aka prevailing wage) law in May for the construction industry included an advertising war, with unions spending $1.1 million...
Cool! Trades create habitat for zoo's penguin exhibit
Date: Jun-12-2015
ROYAL OAK - If you love to watch penguins - and who doesn't? - you're going to love the new Polk Penguin Conservation Center under construction at the Detroit Zoo....
Nation divided in opinion on unions, poll finds
Date: Jun-12-2015
There weren't many shocking headlines out of major Pew Research Center polling released April 27 concerning public and political perception of the nation's unions. "The public expresses mixed views of...
News Briefs
Date: Jun-12-2015
Fast Track fight moves on to U.S. House WASHINGTON (PAI) – After an expected Senate loss on so-called presidential “fast-track” trade promotion authority, workers, unions and their allies are concentrating...
Petition signature gatherers may have to work hard for their money
Date: Jun-12-2015
Coming this summer to a street corner or perhaps a sporting event near you: clipboard-holders with petitions from "Protecting Michigan Taxpayers," promising that if you will sign, you help repeal...
Prevailing wage law in hands of petitioners
Date: Jun-12-2015
LANSING - Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 is in dire risk of repeal this year in the state Legislature - but it likely won't happen in the conventional manner....
Survey shows strong support for state’s prevailing wage law
Date: Jun-12-2015
A telephone poll of 400 likely voters, conducted May 19 and 20 by EPIC MRA for Michigan Prevails, a coalition of business and labor organizations, shows fewer than a third...