The stroke of a pen on Jan. 21 wiped out the last major legal hurdle before substantial construction starts on the creation of the Detroit Lions new stadium, Ford Field....

Union membership numbers in the U.S. are finally looking up. The number of union members was 16.5 million in 1999, a net increase of 265,000 workers from the year before,...

Robert Georgine, president of the Building Trades Department, AFL-CIO since 1974, announced his resignation on Jan. 19. Georgine, 67, said he has accomplished the goals he had set at the...

Bar is raised on jobless bennies A 5.3 percent increase in Michigan's average weekly wage last year is boosting the amount of earnings a worker may need to qualify for...

MARQUETTE - The largest construction project in the history of Northern Michigan University is providing steady employment for the building trades over the long U.P. winter. The $46.9 million Seaborg...

Organizing efforts may be one reason why union numbers are on the upswing. But Americans who are fed up with the bottom line on personal income may be another reason....

A single level is barely sufficient to contain the expanding and increasingly hi-tech North American International Auto Show. The auto show, in its twelfth year as high-profile, international event, is...

EAST LANSING - Perhaps the most important reason for construction of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences (BPSC) building on the Michigan State University campus is that it will put scientists...

LANSING - Construction industry deaths in Michigan took another turn for the worse in 1999, as 31 workers were killed on the job - two more than in 1998 and...

There are very few silver linings to getting burned out of your home. Paul Binert, a Sheet Metal Workers Local 292 member, found them: The mobile home occupied by Paul,...