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News Briefs
Date: Jun-01-2018
No stopping CEO compensation American CEO pay has soared to 361 times that of the average U.S. rank-and-file worker, according to the AFL-CIO’s new Executive Paywatch released May 22. The Executive...
U.S. Supreme Court sides with employers workplace arbitration case
Date: Jun-01-2018
By Celine McNicholas Economic Policy Institute WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on May 21 handed down a 5-4 decision in Epic Systems Corp. v Lewis that deals a significant...
Prevailing wage repeal action suspended by Supreme Court
Date: May-18-2018
LANSING - Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act is in serious jeopardy, but it received a reprieve from the state Supreme Court. A 3-0 vote by a Michigan Court of Appeals panel...
Bipartisan U.S. House again says 'no' to dumping wage law
Date: May-18-2018
WASHINGTON (PAI)—In what is a perennial battle, a bipartisan coalition of representatives once again defeated right-wing Republican Congressman Steve King’s scheme to cut construction workers’ pay by dumping the Davis-Bacon...
Help 'set the table' at Marine memorial site
Date: May-18-2018
By Tom Ward BAC Local 2 CHESTERFIELD TWP. - The First Battalion, 24th Marines suffered their 2nd greatest loss during the Iraq War 2006-2007. An effort to build a fitting...
Insulators wrap up regional skills match
Date: May-18-2018
DETROIT - Every few years, each local union in the Central States Conference of the Heat and Frost Insulators gets to host top apprentices in a competition to determine who...
News Briefs
Date: May-18-2018
Nice hike for construction wages Wage levels in the U.S. construction industry seem to finally be following the law of supply and demand. The Associated General Contractors of America reported...
No class: mandatory arbitration poised to become go-to method of settling work disputes
Date: May-18-2018
By Heidi Shierholz and Celine McNicholas Economic Policy Institute The Supreme Court will soon decide whether employers can lawfully require workers to sign mandatory arbitration agreements that include class and...
State pipe trades apprentices reach for the top of their trade
Date: May-18-2018
COOPERSVILLE - Another year to celebrate union training, and another opportunity for the state's top pipe trades apprentices and apprenticeship coordinators to learn from each other. So it goes every...
Another somber report ranks workplace death, injury rates in the U.S.
Date: May-04-2018
The depressingly titled report Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, released last month by the AFL-CIO offered another sobering look at the state of safety in U.S. workplaces....