CEO Jack Kocsis Jr. has been with Associated Construction Contractors of New Jersey for nearly four decades. As he describes it, labor relations is at the core of the group’s mission. “Be it education ...

Though many of his members support Trump, labor leader Jimmy Williams Jr. has been an outspoken voice against the president's ...

Avery Barteaux, 17, a junior, works on an arbor during class at Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical High School in Danvers, Mass. Essex Tech’s construction craft laborers program partners with ...

NARRAGANSETT, Rhode Island ‒ Dozens of union construction workers are bobbing on boats 15 miles off the coast, killing time playing video games, texting their families and trying to figure out why ...

The Trump administration is attacking jobs and wages in the building trades, as well as the rights of immigrant workers. Building trades unions have been divided over whether to try to curry favor ...

This November, voters across the San Francisco Bay Area will be asked whether to back the largest affordable housing bond in California history — a $20 billion IOU aimed at building homes in the ...

Virtually every public construction project in Massachusetts would be required to use apprentices under a bill that union supporters say will provide a sustaining stream of trained professionals into ...

Project labor agreements — or PLAs — may not be the flashiest phrase in politics, but they are an important one. At a moment when New Yorkers need good-paying, union jobs, when our city government ...

The Laborers’ Local 22 joined a cavalcade of unions endorsing Michelle Wu in her first campaign for Boston mayor four years ago. But this time around, Local 22 is backing challenger Josh Kraft. On ...

PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. — Construction work on the $15 billion data center project in Port Washington will be conducted by union workers. Denver-based Vantage Data Centers on Thursday announced it has ...

Over recent weeks, the corporate media barrage against the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) has resumed in earnest, some seven months after the ...