Revenue for big U.S. construction contractors is returning back up to pre-Great Recession levels. The Engineering News Record in early June released its annual list of top performing contractors in...

LANSING - There once was a time, not too long ago, that a key element of conservative principles was that local government was the best government. States could handle their...

KALAMAZOO - Western Michigan University calls it "the next generation of university living." Miller Davis, its subcontractors and the building trades are erecting "Western Heights," a new four-level housing complex...

New hurdle for prevailing wage?  LANSING - The anti-prevailing wage crowd has a backup plan in case repeal of the law is rejected by the state House, or vetoed by...

LANSING - The Michigan Senate adopted a package of three bills on May 14 that would repeal the state's prevailing wage law - and thus severely undermine the pay structure,...

"To say that those in favor of repealing prevailing wage   are dangerously naïve about the construction trades  is a major understatement." LANSING - Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council Legislative...

LANSING - With the threat of prevailing wage repeal one step closer to reality with the Michigan Senate's vote on May 14, it's "all hands on deck" for building trades...

By Leo Gerard President, United Steelworkers  America is in an abusive relationship with trade-obsessed politicians and corporations. Despite their long history of battering the U.S. middle class with bad trade...

LANSING - The resounding defeat on May 5 of Proposal 1 tosses the road repair funding question back onto the collective lap of the state Legislature, where it was last...

By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI)—In a case that could give so-called “right to work” laws and that anti-worker movement a huge kick in the head, the National...