Building trades unions are trying new tactics to fight back at the anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors. Over the last several months, we have reported how the AFL-CIO Building Trades...

We found it. We knew there was a better corporate model out there that showed Wal-Mart’s philosophy of low employee wages and benefits and high dissatisfaction isn’t the only way...

WASHINGTON (PAI)- A package of four bills affecting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, pushed through the GOP-run House on virtual party-line votes last month, weakens the job safety agency,...

With perhaps the most important election for working families in a generation only a few months away the country is split almost evenly between Bush and Kerry supporters, much like...

MUSKEGON – “Republicans control both the state House and Senate and I know that unions and working people have been taking a beating. We need to be recognized and supported...

MIOSHA works OT for safety sake  MIOSHA Construction Safety and Health Division inspectors will be stepping up visits to state job sites this summer during non-traditional hours – including evenings...

The next generation of hospital is nearing completion at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. When it opens in September , patients are almost certainly going to appreciate the amenities, fixtures,...

In the 2000 presidential election, voters from union households represented 26 percent of all U.S. voters. But in Michigan, which was a key political battleground state that year, 43 percent...

WASHINGTON (PAI) – Despite efforts at a compromise acceptable to unions and business, talks on legislation to settle asbestos cases collapsed on May 10. The legislation would have established a...

In January 2003, two construction laborers somewhere in the U.S. died when the trench in which they were working caved in. Only teenagers, the brothers were laying conduit in the...