BATTLE CREEK – Union wage and benefit standards uphold the nation’s middle class. They assure that fair wages keep money re-circulating in the community. And union health care plans allow...

ORLANDO, Fla. (PAI) – AFL-CIO unions had 8,384,725 members in calendar year 2012, down 70,317 (less than 1 percent) from the year before, figures distributed last month to the federation’s...

LANSING – The former J.W. Knapp’s Department Store has anchored the downtown corner of Washtenaw Street and Washington Square since it was completed in 1937. But the building almost has...

LANSING – State Republican lawmakers plotting to repeal the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act aren’t letting the facts get in the way of anti-union ideology. “When you put aside the political...

STERLING HTS. – The IBEW Local 58– NECA Electrical Industry Training Center received a prestigious Macomb Business Award last month, honoring the staff and facility as a “Champion of Workforce...

Three-year high for construction jobs The construction industry added 48,000 jobs in February, the ninth consecutive month of job growth for the sector, as more people are working in construction...

LANSING – “The governor and his buddies in the legislature have launched an all-out assault on working families.” That opening statement by State House Minority Leader Tim Greimel (D-Auburn Hills)...

LANSING – Many unemployed building trades union workers in Michigan now have some clarity on how to best fill out their application to obtain jobless benefits. Michigan Building and Construction...

(Susan H. Bitensky, Michigan State University College of Law) On Dec. 11, 2012, Michigan became the 24th state to enact so-called “right to work” (RTW) laws. Though elsewhere these laws...

LIVONIA – Michigan’s new right-to-work law certainly wasn’t enacted by majority of Republican lawmakers in December because it would do workers any favors. Still, by virtue of the nature of...