By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer PITTSBURGH (PAI) – Union leaders and staffers at the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh are confident Congress will pass the Employee Free Choice Act, but...

Workplace fatalities in the construction industry dropped significantly from 2007 to 2008 – 20 percent – but the building industry continues to lead all employment sectors in worker fatalities. A...

The addition to Battle Creek Central High School is shaping up, with structural steel dominating the landscape next to the existing school on West Van Buren Street. A $67 million...

The national construction fatality rate declined 47 percent and the number of recordable safety incidents dropped 38 percent since the federal government switched to a safety oversight approach known as...

Groundbreaking set for Gun Lake Casino To the surprise of many, on Sept. 2 the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, also known as the Gun Lake Tribe, suddenly announced it...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama wants to stop the political ping-pong around project labor agreements (PLAs), by inserting a requirement for them for major construction contracts solely done with federal...

This Labor Day, many American workers will be watching their pennies as much as they watch the annual parades. This year, working people across the board are being hit with...

While there haven’t been many bright spots in the job market this year, thousands of workers from around Michigan celebrated labor’s day, anyway on Labor Day 2009. “Now’s the time...

SAULT STE. MARIE – So, you wanna build a $1.2 billion power plant? Arranging state permits, getting financing and addressing community concerns during public hearings are just some of the...

WASHINGTON (Compiled from (PAI) – President Obama has seemingly wavered back and forth, and back again in recent weeks in his public support for the public option in the nation’s...