Jobless benefit calls ignored, big-time If you have had trouble getting through to Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) by phone, you're not alone. In fact, the odds are stacked against...

If you have "declined to sign" the petition to repeal the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 - good! - such inaction is the least you could do to help...

DETROIT – Michigan labor unions filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on April 22 challenging Public Act 269, a law that prohibits a corporation from providing union payroll deductions...

MARQUETTE - Another opportunity for lodging in the Upper Peninsula's largest city is on the way, in the form of a new 80,000 square-foot Staybridge Suites extended-stay hotel. Located at...

A Dane County Circuit Court Judge struck down the Wisconsin right-to-work law on April 8, and on April 25, the same judge denied the state Department of Justice's request to...

Editor's note: a public hearing was held March 17 before the Michigan House of Representatives' Committee on Workforce Talent and Development that would loosen rules on worker licensing standards. House...

For now, Wisconsin RTW law overturned A Dane County judge struck down the Wisconsin right-to-work law on April 8 a year after the law took effect. Judge William Faust agreed...

Industry pushback against a new worker-friendly silica rule quickly went into the courts, barely a week after the rule was released by the Obama Administration's Labor Department. The Louisiana chapter...

LANSING - Over the past few years, the positives have been scarce in the state Legislature for the state's organized construction industry. The presence of right-to-work, the threat to prevailing...

By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer Workers in the U.S. and Japan, and indeed worldwide, are likely to lose tens of thousands of jobs, and those two economies are likely...