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About the plane you flew in during World War II... Airman who served on C-47 during D-Day gets unlikely chance to fly with her again
Date: Jan-23-2015
The twin-engine transport plane nicknamed “Placid Lassie” participated in the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, dropping paratroopers over France. In the weeks afterward, the C-47A Skytrain and its crew...
Ballot plan would restore woeful roads, bridges if backed by state's voters
Date: Jan-23-2015
LANSING – Gov. Rick Snyder on Jan. 12 signed legislation that would start the long road back to restoring Michigan’s crumbling streets and bridges, in part by ensuring taxes paid...
Business groups again sue NLRB over new union election rules
Date: Jan-23-2015
(By Mark Gruenberg, PAI Staff Writer) WASHINGTON (PAI) – Here we go again. Business groups are suing the National Labor Relations Board over the new union election rules it finalized...
Help for Care House
Date: Jan-23-2015
MT. CLEMENS – Contributions from building trades union representatives to Care House totaled a bit more than $4,000 this year, continuing a tradition of generosity to the facility for women...
Legality of RTW for public employees goes before Supreme Court
Date: Jan-23-2015
LANSING – Arguments were heard Jan. 13 before the Michigan Supreme Court as part of organized labor’s first major attempt to overturn the state’s right-to-work laws. At issue: is it...
Repeal of state's prevailing wage law: Top of the priority list for state Republicans
Date: Jan-23-2015
LANSING - Pundits predicted after last November's elections that the makeup of the state Legislature would get more conservative, more pro-Tea Party, and even more anti-union than the group that...
Trades set stage at auto show
Date: Jan-23-2015
DETROIT – Showtime!. Before the cars go on display in front of the press and the public at the North American International Auto Show, nearly 1,000 union carpenters electricians, iron...
Congress gives pension plans new survival skills
Date: Jan-09-2015
By Benjamin A. Schepis, Esq. Novara Tesija, P.L.L.C. Congress recently passed pension legislation as part of its last minute budgeting process. The legislation – called the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act...
Congress gives pension plans new survival skills
Date: Jan-09-2015
(By Benjamin A. Schepis, Esq. Novara Tesija, P.L.L.C.) Congress recently passed pension legislation as part of its last minute budgeting process. The legislation – called the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act...
Electricians power Quicken's new technology center
Date: Jan-09-2015
DETROIT – Data is so important in corporate America that it’s now getting its own building. Case in point: the Quicken Loans Technology Center, a new 66,000-square-foot building that’s nearing...