LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS joined dozens of construction and trade union workers Wednesday in a protest against a commercial ...

As unions lined up to support Zohran Mamdani after he won the Democratic nomination in June, the construction trades held back. Within days of Andrew Cuomo losing the primary, unions that previously ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When Gov. Gavin Newsom last week signed the biggest effort in years to undo red tape for housing development, he ...

California lawmakers are on the cusp of striking a last-minute deal to tie one of the year’s most ambitious and controversial housing bills to a new set of minimum wages for housing construction ...

After a global pandemic and years of historic inflation, anti-union lobbyists in the construction industry are pushing a narrative that unions are to blame for increased construction costs. This tired ...

Unions are losing their clout in California’s construction industry. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with numbers from UnionStats.com that track federal labor movement data back to 1983, found 129,800 ...

Walkup apartments are more American than they may seem. A recent report by Stephen Smith, founder of the Center for Building in North America, highlights the scarcity and high cost of elevators in the ...

On the morning of April 6, 2015, Carlos Moncayo was doing excavation and foundation work at a non-union construction site in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Despite city and federal regulations and ...

In March 2025, hundreds of workers at the JSW Steel facility in Ohio became the latest to unionize under the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Though not the country’s largest union, its full name—the ...