The State of Michigan is dropping criminal charges and arrest warrants against 186 people accused of illegally collecting unemployment benefits, state officials announced July 20. Wanda Stokes, head of the...

WASHINGTON (PAI)--To no one’s great surprise, the GOP Trump administration Labor Department wants to get public comments – read “business opposition” – to a rule that would open millions of...

We know that the ongoing petition drive to repeal Michigan’s Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 will come with a price tag approaching $2 million. Court documents revealed that as the...

By Nick Fox Laborers Health and Safety Fund of North America In October of 2016, two construction workers in Boston were killed when a water main broke and flooded the...

Construction jobs are up, the pay is higher, industry spending is steady and there's momentum aplenty.  The nation's construction industry moved into summer in very good shape, with economic indicators...

Now adorning the top of Little Caesars Arena for the benefit of blimp cameras, downtown Detroit high-rise dwellers and passing plane passengers is a new 243-foot-tall Little Caesar logo painted...

Jobless rate falls to 20017 level  WASHINGTON (PAI)—The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.4 percent in June, up 0.1 percent from the month before, but down 0.4 percent from January, according...

By Steve Lindauer CEO, The Association of Union Constructors If you've been involved in union construction and maintenance for any length of time, you understand the importance of apprenticeship programs....

By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer An independent study for the non-profit Commonwealth Fund calculates the Senate Republicans’ “replacement” for the seven-year-old Affordable Care Act could cost 919,000 jobs in...

WASHINGTON (PAI)—A bipartisan duo of Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced legislation to let businesses take a $5,000-per-worker tax credit for three years for every newly trained...