RTW benefits are only ‘anecdotal’ LANSING – Last month, reports Progress Michigan, the state Republican Party mailed a fundraising letter urging supporters to donate and keep the conservative agenda moving...

LANSING – Michigan continues to experience a relatively low rate of fatalities in the construction industry, but there was an unwelcome increase in 2013. After a record-low of nine construction...

(By Mark Gruenberg, PAI Staff Writer)  WASHINGTON (PAI)—Union membership in the U.S. rose by 162,000 in 2013, to 14.528 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculated, but the union share...

WASHINGTON (PAI)—With 72,000 more unemployed workers losing their jobless benefits every week, organized labor and its civic, religious and congressional Democratic allies turned to public pressure to push resurrection of...

DETROIT – Last year’s North American International Auto Show attracted the largest public crowd in a decade, 795,416 people. The show also brought in 5,000 journalists from around the world...

(By Craig Becker) Unnoticed except by employment lawyers, the United States Court of Appeals in New Orleans last month issued what might be the most important workers’ rights opinions in...

CINCINNATI – The full U.S. Court of Appeals has refused to reconsider a previous ruling by one of their three-judge panels, which essentially upheld a Michigan law that bans state...

DETROIT – Thanks to the skills of Local 80 craftsmen from Cass Sheetmetal, an historic church in Detroit now has a stable steeple. A wind storm that blew through Michigan...

U.S. construction employment grew 2.1 percent during 2013, adding 122,000 jobs from a year earlier, says a Jan. 10 report by the Associated General Contractors of America. The mild but...

LANSING - Michigan House Democrats were united in opposition to a pair of bills that eases state regulations on installers of residential chair lifts and platform lifts. No matter. With...