By Leo Gerard President, United Steelworkers In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable,...

LANSING - Legislation that would allow unionized employees to vote on right-to-work policies in their workplace was introduced March 1. The bills would change Michigan’s controversial right-to-work laws to allow...

FLINT - Union plumbers, both journeymen and apprentices, continue to set the standard for being good community citizens in the wake of the city's lead-in-the-water crisis. By the end of...

LANSING - It's widely known that the effort to repeal Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 via a petition drive has been bolstered by organizers like the anti-union Associated Builders...

One of the most comprehensive academic studies of the economic, social and project cost impacts related to state prevailing wage laws was released Feb. 9, and the results might cause...

WASHINGTON D.C. - Just when it looked like the Supreme Court was set to allow right-to-work for virtually all U.S. public sector workers, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia died. The...

DETROIT - The Capitol Park district in Detroit is a bit off the beaten track in downtown Detroit, but the area has a tremendous collection of historic buildings that are...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Obama’s FY 2017 budget proposal contains a proposed increase in Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums, costing multiemployer pension funds like those in the building trades...

No endorsement for prez from AFL-CIO The AFL-CIO will not, for now, endorse a candidate for U.S. president. "Following recent discussion at the AFL-CIO’s Executive Committee meeting and subsequent conversations...

FLINT, MI - Some 470 plumbers and pipe fitters from around Michigan's Lower Peninsula could have slept in on Saturday morning, Jan. 30, but instead decided that their day off...