Michigan agency under fire for How to Organize a Union event
Lansing A Republican-led Senate panel will reconsider a Michigan department s budget recommendation after the department revealed it would hold training to instruct private and public sector employees on how to organize a union.
Sen. Ken Horn, R-Frankenmuth, said the unionization training is beyond the scope and mission of the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, accused the state of putting a thumb on the scale for unions.
The union organizing training and the department s development of permanent COVID-19 workplace rules have pushed the Senate to schedule a subcommittee meeting next week to reconsider the Senate s budget plan for the department, Horn said.
How to navigate new clean slate laws wzzm13.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wzzm13.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When the pandemic hit Michigan and the rest of our country, businesses were shut down and jobs vaporized. The second month of the pandemic, April 2020, Michigan s unemployment rate hit 23.6%. Now in April 2021 it stands at 5.1%. The Michigan Department of Labor reports the lowest number of unemployment claims since the pandemic began, now at just 576,000.
Dr. Brian Long, the director of supply management research for Grand Valley State University’s Seidman College of Business, says automotive manufacturing has led Michigan’s economic revival, while one West Michigan staple is left up in the air. “The other thing that has hurt in this pandemic is the office furniture business,” Long told News 8. “Fourteen percent of the world’s office furniture was made here in West Michigan. Now, I don’t know if that still is or not because we are redefining what the office is. Sales for these industries are down, except for those that are selling to the home office market. Unfortunate
New expungement laws take effect in Michigan wzzm13.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wzzm13.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
LANSING – Over the coming months, returning citizens can get help with expunging eligible convictions from their criminal record to aid them in their pursuit