As technology manager at Chicago’s Pipe Fitters Local 597’s 200,000-square-foot training facility, Mike Zivanovic does his part to prepare Chicago pipe fitters for any and every job. Local Union 597 ...

When Martin Patrick Durkin resigned last week as Secretary of Labor, an old union colleague remarked: “Like any old steam fitter, he knew when the pressure got too high.” The pressure had been ...

Plumbers, truckers and pipe fitters are offering hiring and signing bonuses — and promoting their six-figure incomes — to entice high school graduates willing to do dirty jobs, but young people keep ...

The statewide election hasn’t even arrived yet in the close contest for governor and other county, state and federal races, but one local labor organization already is trumpeting its public support ...