The issue is not a lack of willing people, but a lack of steady, quality jobs, writes an Iron Workers union business manager.

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The construction industry has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration ...

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The Minnesota Department of Transportation paused work this week to honor two fallen construction workers. The workers, Pierre Mack and Adam Smith, died in separate accidents last week in Burnsville ...

A bill in the Legislature shores up unemployment insurance, boosts the oil and gas workforce, reduces employer taxes and ...

Currently, the construction industry is battling a gap of 141,000 jobs, but that will blow out in less than two years when ...

Industry leaders created Construction Suicide Prevention Week in 2019 in reaction to a steady rise in the death-by-suicide rate among construction workers. “We all agreed, as an industry collectively, ...