I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
UAW leader Ron Gettelfinger told an auto industry gathering that the union does not anticipate making any wage concessions as part of the restructuring required of the Big Three automakers after receiving billions in federal funds to stave off bankruptcy.
The UAW will sacrifice to help General Motors and Chrysler LLC get their federal loans, but doesn’t expect to take lower wages, President Ron Gettelfinger said tonight at the Automotive News World Congress.
He cited several concessions the union already has made to help the automakers become more competitive. But he also said that the effort to revive the automakers has a long way to go. “We’re not out of the woods yet,” he said.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Automotive News World Congress, Gettelfinger said automaker executives have indicated publicly that wage concessions would not be required of the union as part of federal bailout provisions being demanded of General Motors and Chrysler LLC. “We’re not expecting lower wages,” he said.
Gettelfinger pointed to concessions the union had already made that saved billions of dollars for the automakers over the last few years.
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