Dave Austin has joined the staff of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council’s Detroit office, serving as business representative. The president and business development coordinator of Detroit’s IBEW Local...

Romney picks up ABC’s endorsement PHOENIX (PAI) – Specifically citing GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s anti-union stands, the nation’s top anti-worker construction group, the Associated Builders and Contractors, has endorsed...

EAST LANSING – They’re calling it an addition, but the added space that’s being constructed at  Wells Hall on the Michigan State University campus needs a better term to describe...

By Harry Kelber “The Labor Educator” Unions have been around for more than a century, and they've done more good for America's working people — union and non-union — and...

LANSING – It was bad enough for the state’s workers when Gov. Rick Snyder signed a Republican-backed bill last March 28, which made Michigan the first state in history to...

BAY CITY – The city’s prevailing wage law was repealed Feb. 6, on a 5-4 vote by a City Commission whose majority bared its conservative fangs and then bit into...

LANSING – The Republican steamroller against the state’s unions continued to be unstoppable last month, as a four-bill package designed to further reduce the clout of organized labor passed a...

INDIANAPOLIS (PAI) – Indiana, thanks to its Radical Right GOP legislature and flip-flopping GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels, became the nation’s 23rd “Right to Work” state – and the first in the...

LANSING – The trend of lower construction workplace fatalities in Michigan seems to be taking hold. MIOSHA recorded 10 construction industry fatalities in our state in 2011 – an historic...

TRAVERSE CITY – A new 150-foot-tall control tower under construction at Cherry Capital Airport will help improve the view of air traffic controllers, while replacing a shorter, aging and outdated...