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.
The Michigan Employment Relations Commission ruled this week that graduate researchers at the University of Michigan are not allowed under state law to unionize because they are not public employees.
The Detroit Free Press reports:
A drive to unionize University of Michigan graduate student research assistants hit a major snag Monday when the Michigan Employment Relations Commission rejected a union move to label the research assistants as public employees.
MERC officials, voting 3-0, said they saw no reason to overturn a 1981 ruling that research assistants are not public employees and thus cannot unionize.
The U of M Board of Regents voted 6-2 to allow the grad students to hold a vote on whether to unionize, but this ruling likely makes any such vote meaningless. The legal challenge to the vote was filed by the Mackinac Center on behalf of a U of M grad student who objected to the drive to unionize.
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