A successful lower court challenge this month that is temporarily blocking West Virginia's newly minted right-to-work law is giving new hope to labor unions in Michigan and elsewhere that higher...

DETROIT - Local 25 Iron Workers, Operating Engineers Local 324 and Midwest Steel placed the last major structural steel section at Little Caesar's Arena on Aug. 4, topping out the...

By C.J. Atkins Peoples World and Press Associates  PHILADELPHIA (PAI)—The Democratic platform adopted by party delegates in Philadelphia is “the most pro-worker platform since FDR,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says....

Moody's Investors Service is adding to the darkening clouds over the financial health of the nation's multiemployer pension plans. The financial group issued a report on July 13 that examined...

EAST LANSING - All's quiet on the hardwood basketball court and inside the arena at the Breslin Student Events Center on the Michigan State University campus. But in the facility's...

By Sheri Gasaway St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune ST. LOUIS (PAI)--The modest brick boarding house where Henry Miller founded the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 125 years ago will reopen...

Momentum Index inches higher The Dodge Momentum Index for U.S. construction activity moved slightly higher in July, increasing 0.5 percent to 134.7 (2000=100) from its revised June reading of 134.1....

WAYLAND - More room for gaming, eating and entertainment is on the way to the Gun Lake Casino. Located along U.S. 131 between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, the building trades...

EPI: High CEO pay saps U.S. elsewhere Don’t worry about America’s CEOs. They’re doing fine. In 2015, chief executive officers in our nation made an average of $15.3 million in...

WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court slammed the door shut this year on the possibility of it overturning one of its most significant pro-union legal decisions in decades. On...