Over the last three years, academic scholars have picked apart and analyzed prevailing wage laws in 14 states - and the same conclusions keep popping up time and time again....

Henry Ford referred to written history as being "more or less bunk," but today's scholars still have tremendous interest in the 20th Century's greatest industrialist. Ford researchers will have a...

LANSING - With the state's economy starting to slow down, many workers are realizing that Unemployment Insurance ain't what it used to be. In 1995, Gov. John Engler and the...

Seven finalists have been placed in competition for the Sixth Annual Gender and Race Diversification Excellence (GARDE) Awards sponsored by the Great Lakes Construction Alliance. The GARDE Award recognizes individuals...

LANSING - Michigan's top justices will finally have a hall to call their own. The building trades and general contractor The Christman Co., are in the process of erecting a...

Standard tightened for union recognition WASHINGTON (PAI) - By a 4-0 vote, the National Labor Relations Board set a new and higher standard for when an employer can legally withdraw...

The Wilson Bridge in Maryland has yet to be built - but already it is a symbol of some wrong-headed thinking about union-only project labor agreements (PLAs). The proposed 12-lane,...

What can you teach a layman about laying block in a four-hour crash course? "If they can do their work without getting themselves or someone else hurt, I'll consider this...

The 350,000-member International Union of Carpenters and Joiners has withdrawn from the AFL-CIO, effective March 29. The move "had been expected since the union's August convention when delegates gave Carpenters...

Some Republicans like project agreements President Bush may not like union-only project agreements, but his opinion is not shared by all Republicans. The Construction Labor Report said a surprising number...