FLINT - Last fall, members and contractors affiliated with the United Association of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 370 donated their time to install hundreds of home faucet filters in...

Plenty of room for better job numbers The nation's jobless rate dropped by 0.6 percent, or 800,000 workers, during the course of 2015, but momentum was evident during the last...

LANSING - A long-time standard ratio for training in the state's electrical industry - one journeyman supervising one apprentice - is teed up to be the latest rule abolished by...

Contractors expect a range of public and private markets to grow, and 71 percent of U.S. construction firms plan to expand their payrolls in 2016, according to survey results released...

By Steve Bieda (D) State Senator, 9th District Lawmakers in Lansing recently worked late into the night to pass a series of controversial bills, one of which grew from 12...

Editor's note: IBEW Local 275 Business Manager Sean Egan, who is also president of the Kent-Ionia Labor Council, wrote this piece for the council in late December. It is updated...

The modest increases in U.S. construction hiring for 2016 applies to the Michigan market as well. The Associated General Contractors surveyed specific states for their 2016 outlook survey, and of...

BAY CITY - The last of three anchor tenants at the Uptown development along the Saginaw River will inhabit a three-story, 80,000-square-foot medical facility, once the building trades wrap up...

Slow growth seen for construction Employment in the U.S. construction industry is expected to continue to grow over the next eight years, but it likely won't reach the employment peak...

LANSING - For everyone who would like to witness a second failed petition effort to repeal the Michigan's Prevailing Wage Act of 1965, it's OK to hope for a long,...