07 March 2006
02 March 2006
Union: Wal-Mart taxed Mich. $23M in 2005
by aflciopolitical
MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich., March 1 (UPI) -- More bad news for Wal-Mart: A Michigan union claims the retailer cost state taxpayers over $23 million in 2005. Michigan's United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 876 said it is spearheading a nationwide
01 March 2006
UFCW Union, Local 876: Wal-Mart's Growing Health Care Crisis Costs Taxpayers Billions
by aflciopolitical
UFCW Union, Local 876: Wal-Mart's Growing Health Care Crisis Costs Taxpayers Billions
27 February 2006
Group wants minimum wage increase on the ballot
by aflciopolitical
Holly Doyle, News 3 Reporter February 13, 2006 - 7:22PM (NEWS 3) - Michigan Needs A Raise. That's the name of a group launching an effort to raise the minimum wage in Michigan from $5.15 an hour to $6.85. The goal is getting it on the ballot. All
Minimum wage, maximum effort (Metro Times Detroit)
by aflciopolitical
As of 2004, the last year for which data is available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 16,000 members of Michigan's nearly 2.9 million hourly work force made minimum wage. An additional 74,000 workers were making less than the minimum wage
Wage hike needed - - The Mining Gazette
by aflciopolitical
To the editor: Recent letters in The Daily Mining Gazette against raising the minimum wage inspired me to write this letter. Both Frank Sager of Hancock and Ken Dihle of Dearborn claim raising the minimum wage would eliminate jobs that pay minimum wag
Huron Daily Tribune - News - 02/24/2006 - Minimum wage hike focus of Dems’ town hall meeting
by aflciopolitical
Megan Frounfelter, The Huron Daily Tribune BAD AXE — The Huron County Democratic Party discussed the benefits of increasing Michigan’s minimum wage during a town hall meeting on Thursday. Advertisement A citizen’s group, Michigan Needs a Raise,
23 February 2006
Michigan: Shifting health insurance expense
by aflciopolitical
Michigan could save $100 million a year if it adopted a law similar to one Maryland passed earlier this month that forces Wal-Mart to pay more for its employee health care, proponents of that legislation said.
Michigan: Unions have business over barrel on minimum wage
by aflciopolitical
February 22, 2006 Still getting by on $5.15 an hour? You won’t be for much longer. State Democrats and the labor unions are corralling an obstinate business community into making a decision they’ll be forced to live with for years to come: Do y
State must make health care weasels pay - 02/17/06 - The Detroit News
by aflciopolitical
I t's no secret that America's health care system is broken, and any national solution to this nationwide problem is hopelessly caught in the great legislative traffic jam we call Washington, D.C. But Michigan residents don't have to wait around for help
