(Editor’s note: this is yet another article on the funding crisis involving multiemployer pension plans, which cover all over the building trades unions). Congress has left Washington for the summer...

The anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors call themselves an advocate for open shop contractors. As such, they rarely pass up the opportunity to lobby for legislation and regulations that keep...

(Editor’s note: On Aug. 1, Congress began its summer recess. Left undone was any attempt to extend emergency unemployment benefits. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said that extending benefits...

A new executive order from President Obama will make it harder for companies to win federal contracts if they violate their workers’ rights and withhold their wages, the White House...

MARQUETTE – The new Jamrich Hall is open for education. A 16-month construction process resulted in the completion of the new hall on the campus of Northern Michigan University. The...

No long-term fix for highway funding WASHINGTON (PAI)—Congress’ literally last-minute passage of a $11 billion bill to fund highway, bridge and mass transit projects through next May still left union...

With the sun setting on another summer, Labor Day is making its annual melancholy appearance on the calendar. There’s still time to support each other and the institution of organized...

(Schauer has been endorsed for governor by the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council) Here in Michigan, we once had our own unique version of the American Dream. This Michigan...

When a recent study by the Russell Sage Foundation revealed that the median American household had lost a third of its net worth in the decade between 2003 and 2013,...

America’s two largest entitlement programs, Medicare and Social Security, are in fairly good financial shape in the near-term. But long-term, not much has changed: the nation’s aging population is going...