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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
Waiting, waiting, for multiemployer pension reform
Date: Aug-29-2014
(Editor’s note: this is yet another article on the funding crisis involving multiemployer pension plans, which cover all over the building trades unions). Congress has left Washington for the summer...
ABC says wage proposal isn't about wages. It's about wages.
Date: Aug-15-2014
The anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors call themselves an advocate for open shop contractors. As such, they rarely pass up the opportunity to lobby for legislation and regulations that keep...
Congress goes home with no GOP action on extending jobless benefits
Date: Aug-15-2014
(Editor’s note: On Aug. 1, Congress began its summer recess. Left undone was any attempt to extend emergency unemployment benefits. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said that extending benefits...
Latest executive order will make it harder for federal contractors to violate workers’ rights
Date: Aug-15-2014
A new executive order from President Obama will make it harder for companies to win federal contracts if they violate their workers’ rights and withhold their wages, the White House...
New and much-improved Jamrich Hall opens at NMU
Date: Aug-15-2014
MARQUETTE – The new Jamrich Hall is open for education. A 16-month construction process resulted in the completion of the new hall on the campus of Northern Michigan University. The...
News Briefs
Date: Aug-15-2014
No long-term fix for highway funding WASHINGTON (PAI)—Congress’ literally last-minute passage of a $11 billion bill to fund highway, bridge and mass transit projects through next May still left union...
On Deck: Labor Day Events & Activities
Date: Aug-15-2014
With the sun setting on another summer, Labor Day is making its annual melancholy appearance on the calendar. There’s still time to support each other and the institution of organized...
Schauer's economic plan: 'Time to get our priorities straight'
Date: Aug-15-2014
(Schauer has been endorsed for governor by the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council) Here in Michigan, we once had our own unique version of the American Dream. This Michigan...
'Should the power of the federal government be used to elevate worker wages or drive them down?'
Date: Aug-15-2014
When a recent study by the Russell Sage Foundation revealed that the median American household had lost a third of its net worth in the decade between 2003 and 2013,...
Social Security, Medicare funds are holding up nicely, but here come the Boomers
Date: Aug-15-2014
America’s two largest entitlement programs, Medicare and Social Security, are in fairly good financial shape in the near-term. But long-term, not much has changed: the nation’s aging population is going...