Health insurance premiums rose 3% for American businesses last year, as employers... More
Teamsters union members who have been on strike at two Chicago area ProBuild facilities since July 28 voted to accept a settlement with the LBM giant and return to work. The vote came four days after ProBuild announced it would consolidate one of the two yards as well as close a nearby component manufacturing facility. More
ProBuild announced tonight it will consolidate its Wheaton and Yorkville, Ill., operations--the two yards where Teamsters have been on strike since July 28--and will close its Hampshire, Ill, component manufacturing facility effective Sept. 30. More
A Chicago-area Teamsters Union local and executives from ProBuild will meet with a federal mediator on Sept. 15 for the second time since the Teamsters went on strike a month and a half ago at two ProBuild facilities. More
A Teamsters Union strike against two Chicago-area ProBuild facilities has entered its fifth full week with no resolution in sight and increased frustration by the Teamster local's leader that ProBuild is pulling back from past offers more than it's making concessions. More
Officials for ProBuiild and Teamsters Union Local 673 will meet with a federal... More
Several dozen members of a Teamsters Union local--armed with apparent... More
Glenn Miller taught himself the LBM industry beginning at 15 and went straight to work after high school. More
NLBMDA joined with more than two dozen other housing and business groups in urging President Barack Obama to work to remove a provision in the Senate health care bill that excludes most of the construction industry from language exempting small business from a mandate requiring they provide health insurance for their workers. More
Builder groups including the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA) urged their members to protest a little-noticed amendment to the Senate's health care bill that requires construction industry employers with as few as five employees to provide health insurance to their workers starting in 2014. More
