Road-fixing funds slowly dribble out LANSING – Gov. Rick Snyder has called for spending an additional $1.4 billion a year to repair Michigan’s crumbling roads and bridges. Michigan Department of...

GOP politics steers road money LANSING – Despite holding every lever of power in the state capital, Michigan’s Republican lawmakers, last month were utterly unable – even with help from Dems...

DETROIT – Just in time for the start of the 2014 baseball season, the building trades this week were wrapping up a $4 million makeover of Comerica Park’s Pepsi Porch...

Churches in Detroit provide services on Sundays. The soup kitchens? Not so much.To help fill a void in the needs of the homeless and hungry, volunteers with the Wobbly Kitchen...

They said it: time to ‘set an agenda for working people’ LANSING – Here are a few choice comments made to delegates at the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council’s Legislative...

Fred Veigel, an IBEW Local 252 member and long-time Huron Valley Central Labor Council president, passed away on March 2, 2014. He was 84. Following is a write up about...

LANSING – A state bill that would impose daily fines of $1,000 on individuals and $10,000 on labor organizations for violations of new, more restrictive picketing regulations was shelved –...

LANSING – Are you among the Michigan voters who haven’t yet tuned into this year’s Michigan race for governor? Not familiar with the Democratic challenger to incumbent Gov. Rick Snyder?...

Better news for construction starts      Perhaps U.S. construction at the start of 2014 went a bit better than we reported. Last issue we cited a report by McGraw Hill Construction,...

LANSING – Although it never came to a vote, the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 was probably close to being overturned during the same lame-duck legislative session in December...