U.S. construction employment is up, spending is down, and industry wage gains are middling. The early October monthly economic update by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics on the general...

(Editor's note: this update on the state of the nation's multiemployer pension plans comes the same week that Crain's Detroit Business reported that the Michigan Regional Carpenters Council, on behalf...

(From the IBEW) According to the research organization Gallup, 64 percent of Americans approve of labor unions, marking a near 50-year high. That figure is up 16 points from the...

EAST LANSING - The nation's move toward greener sources of energy is leading to the shutdown and decomissioning of coal-fired power plants all over the nation. The fate of the...

By Scott Schneider Laborers Health and Safety Fund of North America Since its creation almost 50 years ago, OSHA’s mission has been to guarantee all workers the right to a...

Trump's orders put unions on notice After months of legal wrangling, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has ordered all federal agencies to begin following President Trump’s executive orders...

Michigan voters will go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 5, to vote in local  elections. Following is list of endorsed candidates by local councils affiliated with the Michign Building...

MARQUETTE - How do you spark more interest in a career in construction? Over the past several years, the strategy in these parts has been to invite school kids and...

FORTY YEARS AFTER it opened, Joe Louis Arena in Detroit has spent this summer and fall slowly being reduced to a structural skeleton and rubble - and soon an empty...

WASHINGTON - The Trump Administration's Labor Department made it official on Sept. 24: a new "final rule" it has published will open the door for 1.3 million additional U.S. workers...