WASHINGTON (PAI) – Politics, pensions and the fate of the massive highway-mass transit bill captured the attention and the focus of 3,000 Building Trades delegates meeting in Washington. The delegates,...

Construction union membership remains steady The AFL-CIO’s membership report released last month revealed that building trades unions did relatively well compared to other unions when it came to preserving their...

Michigan, which is one of a number of states seeking to lose its status as a “donor” state for highway funding, will apparently have to get used to that status...

Asbestos bill still unresolved Organized labor’s political clout may have slipped over the years, but it isn’t gone entirely. AFL-CIO opposition is helping to hold up a bill that would...

Michigan’s road work zones now have an official beginning, and ending, with legislation that went into effect April 8. Work zones will be marked with “Work Zone Begins” and “End...

WASHINGTON – Changes in federal law are on the way that will provide about $80 billion in relief in the form of lower contributions for all U.S. pension plans –...

If you live in a district that’s represented by a Republican member of Congress, it can’t hurt to let your representative know that there are people suffering because Republicans are...

Before the stock market went in the tank a few years ago, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of “irrational exuberance” by people buying stocks, wrongly thinking that the...

At 1 p.m. on Friday, May 7, the Mackinac Bridge Authority and the Michigan Department of Transportation will host a special ceremony and unveil a new coin honoring those responsible...

The process of transforming the Renaissance Center into the global headquarters of the General Motors Corp. is approaching completion. Turner Construction, its subcontractors and the building trades are in the...