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Many in GOP want to 'make unions go away?' It's hard to argue with the evidence...
Date: Oct-19-2018
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Big, new particleboard plant nears completion in Grayling
Date: Oct-19-2018
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U.S. construction still has vigor
Date: Oct-19-2018
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‘New NAFTA’ draws skepticism, questions from union leaders, allies
Date: Oct-19-2018
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News Briefs
Date: Oct-19-2018
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Advocates urge expansion of OT pay rule
Date: Oct-19-2018
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI)—Millions of workers, most of them working women, would benefit if the Trump Labor Department reversed course and restores the larger and more...
What's up with sluggish wages increases?
Date: Oct-19-2018
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Contractors squeezed by material costs, tariffs, worker shortages
Date: Oct-05-2018
Prices for goods and services used in construction costs climbed 6.2 percent over the past year, intensifying a cost squeeze on contractors grappling with widespread labor shortages, according to an...
Forced layoff ends, Operators back on road projects
Date: Oct-05-2018
LANSING — The nearly month-long forced layoff of Operating Engineers Local 324 members by the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association contractors came to an end Sept. 27, when both sides...
From the ashes, union brotherhood arises to benefit stricken Boilermaker
Date: Oct-05-2018
DETROIT - For Boilermaker Bill Tyler and his wife Nancy, not much good has come out of a potentially horrific on-the-job incident - other than a deeper appreciation for each...