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.
After losing nearly half of all the manufacturing jobs in the state over the last ten years, the number of Michigan workers who belong to unions has dropped dramatically.
The Detroit News reports:
The number of Michigan workers who belong to a union fell last year to the lowest in at least 20 years, according to a new report.
Michigan saw an 11.7 percent decline in union membership last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. The number of unionized workers in the state dropped to 627,000, from 710,000 in 2009 — the lowest since the Labor Department began tracking membership by state in 1989.
The new membership statistics come as the Detroit-based United Auto Workers union, which negotiates new labor contracts with Detroit’s Big Three automakers this year, plans a $60 million campaign to try to organize the U.S. factories of foreign automakers.
There is some good news, however. Because of the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, the UAW controls a fair amount of stock in both companies. That gives them more leverage than ever before over company policies and should strengthen their hand in future contract negotiations.
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