FLINT - Members of UA Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 370, together with some of their contractors, have been major, helpful players in the task of assuring clean, healthy water...

HOLLAND - Ongoing construction of the city's "Holland Energy Park" combines two major trends in power production: the move away from coal as an energy source, and the move toward...

MIOSHA program targets hazards LANSING - The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) this month is launching a Local Emphasis Program (LEP) to target siding contractors, structural steel and...

WASHINGTON (PAI)—An Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) move to hold joint employers – think McDonald’s headquarters and local McDonald’s restaurants – more responsible for job safety and health violations...

Multiple names on prevailing wage repeal petitions ‘an absurdity’ LANSING - An unlikely and unexpected twist to the effort intended to repeal the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act of 1965 was...

GWINN - Welcome aboard, Beauchamp Plumbing and Heating. The most successful Upper Peninsula pipe trades organizing effort in at least the past decade has resulted in Beauchamp signing a collective...

The number of unemployed U.S. workers with construction experience dropped to the lowest total for September since 2000. Despite the robust demand for construction in many areas of the country,...

LANSING - Prevailing wage is good for Michigan. And the nonunion Associated Builders and Contractors, which is the primary backer of the effort to repeal the state's prevailing wage law,...

ANN ARBOR - Michigan is meeting the requirements of a seven-year-old state law which calls for 10 percent of the state be powered by renewable energy sources. A tiny sliver...

Jobless rate disappoints even Labor Department WASHINGTON (PAI) - The U.S. unemployment rate stayed unchanged in September at 5.1 percent, the federal government announced Oct. 2. That and low jobs...