LANSING - When organized labor wants to raise its voice, the Michigan Legislative Labor Caucus will lend its ear. That's the plan of the new Labor Caucus chairman, State Rep....

NABTU numbers grow by 70,000 Unions affiliated with North America's Building Trades Unions gained 70,000 new active members during 2018, NABTU announced March 11. The jump in numbers is "continuing...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Labor Department earlier this month released a proposal to expand overtime pay for eligible workers, but at a rate about half of the standard proposed under...

DETROIT - Fiat Chrysler announced Feb. 26 that it would invest $4.5 billion to build a new assembly plant here and add production at five existing Michigan facilities. The investment...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A national right-to-work bill has been re-introduced in Congress. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kent.) and 16 co-sponsors introduced the bill as S. 525, which would "preserve and protect...

Strong start to 2019 for U.S. architects WASHINGTON - The year has started off well for construction contractors and their partners in the building trades - and the architects are happy,...

MARQUETTE - Not even a brutal Upper Peninsula winter is stopping construction progress on the expansion of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community's Ojibwa Casino. Construction manager Gundlach Champion  is managing...

DETROIT - A Michigan Court of Claims judge on Feb. 25 upheld the constitutionality of the state Legislature's repeal of the Prevailing Wage Act, rejecting a union-backed appeal. The legal...

By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI)—The Supreme Court’s June 2018 Janus vs. AFSCME ruling against public sector unions, has, in union membership terms, turned out to be a...

January 2019 employment in the U.S. construction industry picked up where a good 2018 left off, rising 52,000 jobs last month. The increase marks a rise of 338,000 jobs (+4.7...