We view as unmitigated good news that UPHS-Marquette and registered nurses with the Michigan Nurses Association found common ground and reached a tentative contract agreement after months of bargaining. We're told the agreement provides significant gains in wages, addresses staffing concerns ...
The Federal Department of Labor is suggesting we should eliminate the minimum wage requirement for home health care workers, a testing ground to see if they can get away with eliminating minimum wage requirements for everyone. A recent news story I read indicated that Michigan workers need to ...
We are pleased to report that the greater Marquette area has a nice hum early this week as Northern Michigan University students have returned to campus. NMU Interim President Gavin Leach delivered the fall convocation last week. Many students have moved into residence halls and off-campus ...
Before his re-election, Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. Has any other U.S. president-elect ever made such a statement? Trump recently demanded that Barack Obama be prosecuted for treason, based on no evidence. Trump fired a labor statistician because he didn't like the job ...
Of the 21 museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution, one in particular seems recently to have rubbed President Donald Trump the wrong way. "The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL," Trump fulminated in a social media post Tuesday, "where everything discussed is how horrible our ...
Scammers, it seems to us, never run short of schemes to part people from their money. The police agency involved in one of the latest is the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. According to the agency, the scammer will inform the target that their name was used to rent a vehicle which was stopped ...