LANSING – More money to improve Michigan’s crumbling roads and repair its bridges seems to be on the way, as the state House on May 12 adopted a 10-bill package...

Supreme Court case big threat to unions WASHINGTON (PAI) – A recently argued U.S. Supreme Court case, pushed on the justices by the anti-worker National Right to Work Committee, is an...

LANSING – “We know it’s a challenge to bring our legislators to our training centers. So we figured we would try taking our training centers to our legislators.” That was...

LANSING – Maybe, maybe, Michigan should raise the minimum wage. But only on the terms of the state Republican lawmakers. That seems to be the message from those in control...

(By Teri Banas, Michigan 2-1-1) What’s true in the building trades is true in the helping professions. Success comes with using the right tools. Today, the Michigan 2-1-1 information and...

WASHINGTON (PAI) – Two construction union leaders, Building Trades President Sean McGarvey and Laborers President Terry O’Sullivan, are blasting the Obama Administration for yet another delay in ruling on building...

After months of middling around the middle and bottom tiers of state rankings of construction employment, things took a noticeable turn for the better in March in Michigan. The Associated...

Union 4 Life events aid cancer research ANN ARBOR – A single golf outing sponsored last year by IBEW Local 252 apprentices has grown into multiple fundraising events this year to...

(By Mark Gruenberg, PAI Staff Writer)  WASHINGTON (PAI) – By a 54-42 vote on April 30, the Senate tried to open debate on labor-backed legislation to raise the nation’s minimum...

LANSING – State Republicans have put forth a plan to spend an additional minimum of $500 million annually to repair and maintain the state’s roads and bridges. It’s only a...