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Contractors also get some gifts from tax cut
Date: Jan-12-2018
Construction contractors generally like what they see in the new Tax Cut and Jobs Act package that was signed into law Dec. 22 by President Trump. "Today, Congress passed comprehensive...
GOP tax cut: fulfilling a corporate wish list
Date: Jan-12-2018
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) — It’s not just the big tax cut for the 1 percent, and the even-bigger tax cut for corporations. The tax cut...
New, improved physical ed building erected at Kellogg CC
Date: Jan-12-2018
BATTLE CREEK - The old Miller Physical Education Building had provided good service to Kellogg Community College students for half a century. But it needed all manner of renovations and...
News Briefs
Date: Jan-12-2018
RTW repeal bills introduced Five years to the month after the Michigan Legislature and Gov. Rick Snyder made Michigan a right-to-work state, an effort was made to remind people that...
NLRB majority backs company line during bargaining
Date: Jan-12-2018
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI)—In yet another corporate victory, the three-person Republican majority on the National Labor Relations Board ruled a company can unilaterally change “terms and...
State lawmakers seem ready to OK reparations for unemployment 'fraud'
Date: Jan-12-2018
LANSING - With more than 48,000 workers in Michigan falsely accused of unemployment insurance fraud - people who had to pay millions of dollars out of pocket to fight the...
Trades rally, sign up to support prevailing wage
Date: Jan-12-2018
LANSING - There are a lot of moving parts in the effort to sustain a prevailing wage law in Michigan. 1. Labor union members were slated to rally at the...
Counter-petition drive launched to save Michigan's prevailing wage law
Date: Dec-22-2017
LANSING - Michigan Prevails and Protect Michigan Jobs on Dec. 12 announced plans to undertake a petition seeking to retain the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act. A kickoff event was held...
Labor's first against the tax cut continues
Date: Dec-22-2017
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI)--For unions, grad students and even some congressional Democrats, the fight against the GOP tax cut for the rich and big business continued...
Looks like a happy ending for 2017 construction
Date: Dec-22-2017
Construction employment is up in the U.S. So are worker wages. As for industry momentum, that's back. "Employment and pay in construction have risen more rapidly over the past year...