Donations and hard work from the building trades, contractors and contractor associations are helping to bring a new domestic shelter to life. LACASA of Livingston County is erecting a new...

Union members were a major help in the search and cleanup effort in the aftermath of the terrorist attack of World Trade Center towers. Here in Michigan, they're getting themselves...

Construction activity is flowing along nicely at the Water Works Park II project, where the building trades and their contractors are completely replacing the water filtration and pumping system that...

Volunteers from several pipe trades locals put a lot of smiles on a lot of faces this fall, during various Heat's On programs. Volunteers from Plumbers Local 98, Plumbers and...

OLD GLORY flaps in the wind above the Winter Garden, the huge glass-enclosed atrium that's being erected on the Detroit River side of the GM Renaissance Center. Standing behind the...

Have you been laid off and applied for Unemployment Insurance? If so, you know first-hand the reality of the state's jobless benefits system, which limits the amount any jobless worker...

Golden Gate jumpers have unlikely friends Here's a building trades jurisdictional quick quiz: in San Francisco which trade has the task of talking down potential suicide jumpers from the Golden...

Back for a return engagement: repeal of prevailing wage LANSING - It's baaack. The annual effort to repeal Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act of 1966 has returned to our state's capital,...

For more than a century, Jeff and Rebecca Mullins' farmhouse in Erie looked like, well, a farmhouse. About 15 gallons of red, white and blue paint later, its exterior became...

Building trades workers and their families have an opportunity to aid both the current and long-term needs of construction industry workers and their families who were affected by the Sept....