BATTLE CREEK - A bigger and better Battle Creek Health System campus is on the way, in the form of a $29 million expansion project highlighted by a new lobby...

(PAI) - The AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department was stunned Feb. 14 when six unions - the Laborers, Operating Engineers, Carpenters, Teamsters, Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers and Iron Workers...

Union members continue to earn substantially higher wages and receive superior benefits at work than nonunion workers, according to recently released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)....

First-year settlements in construction labor agreements negotiated in 2005 averaged $1.53 or 3.9 percent, according to the Construction Labor Research Council. The average first-year increases were just above the 3.8...

LANSING - The U.S. Congress has utterly unable or unwilling to provide Americans relief on health care costs. The cost of health care have been increasingly pushed to the states,...

By Guy Snyder Political involvement on the local government level by union members and organized labor supporters often proves difficult to achieve. Though labor's voice should be heard on school...

BATTLE CREEK - The building trades are re-tooling the Johnson Controls Metals and Mechanisms facility in the Fort Custer Industrial Park, getting it ready for full production as an automotive...

U.S. construction ends 2005 up 10% The final numbers for 2005 are in, revealing that total U.S. construction advanced 10 percent from 2004 to $651.4 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction....

by David Plawecki, Deputy Director Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth (This is the third and final story in a series about the fair enforcement of Michigan's Prevailing Wage...

ANN ARBOR - The wheels of construction are turning on Weill Hall, a new 80,000-square-foot building that will house the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. According to the...