Blog tagged as Labor

Rachel May, a 35-year-old bartender at Applebee's, opposes Michigan phasing out its tipping system. She wants state officials to know she chose to be part of the tipped worker industry, and "we're not some poor little servants that are underpaid."

The largest of the three unions that work for the Michigan Education Association (MEA) has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the MEA for failing to bargain in good faith.

For one union representing grocery stackers, cashiers and food packers in West Michigan, its youngest members are 15 years old.

(DIMONDALE) – The state broke ground Friday on a public health and environmental science laboratory that will be shared among the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO).

Legislative office employees at the Michigan House are currently engaged in an organizing campaign with Teamsters Local 243, the union said Monday, confirming a report MIRS published earlier in the month.