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A Swedish construction firm has been accused of exploiting foreign workers, with one union representative accusing the company of engaging in modern slavery-like practices. A lawsuit has been brought against the concrete firm Formbetong by the Swedish building workers’ union

Michigan’s Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s decision to ban most residential construction during the coronavirus shutdown led to a 44 percent decline in Michigan construction jobs and contributed to her state’s second highest in the nation unemployment rate.

Florida’s E-Verify bill will likely push 140,000 illegals out of Florida jobs and make it difficult for employers to hire replacement workers at current wages, says a university study funded by the investors who are trying to block the E-Verify bill.

Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has scored a big — but partial — victory in Florida when a GOP-controlled committee approved a loopholed version of his mandatory E-Verify bill. 

Both permits and housing starts showed strong signs of a solid recovery in October.

Farming and construction were among the sectors that expanded in October.

Trump complained that the Fed should have gone further. Thursday’s data make the case for further Fed cuts.

The majority of blue collar American workers say they are better off today with the economy under the direction of President Trump than they were during the Obama years, a new poll reveals.

An Oregon construction worker is suing his employer for $800,000 after being fired for refusal to attend a mandatory on-the-job Bible study.

Housing starts bounced back in July but by far less than expected. Could the construction boom be coming to an end?

The UK’s economy bounced back in the second quarter of the year, doubling from 0.2 percent to 0.4 percent growth, boosted by the good weather as salaries continue to rise with fewer EU migrants depressing wages.

Workers in two American industries that many economists had consigned to the dustbin of history saw some of the biggest gains in wages, bonuses, and benefits in the start of 2018.

“Before I used to say, ‘You are going to have a friend,’ but now I have proven you have got a friend in the White House,” Trump said to a crowd of about 400 union workers and supporters at the Richfield union training facility.

No campaign promise garnered more attention than Donald Trump’s proposed wall at our southern border.

California’s September job growth saw government employment booming at an annualized rate of over 12 percent — and the private sector crawling at less than 2 percent.

An Illinois bar manager who grew tired of the unfinished construction near his business is giving construction workers a little extra incentive to get their work done.

Border wall prototype construction enters its final days along the United States’ Southwest border in San Diego, CA.

A “crude” petrol bomb has been discovered planted beneath a lorry belonging to a French-Swiss cement firm that publicly offered to supply the construction of U.S. President Donald Trump’s southern border wall.

Billionaire special interests are seeking special favors from the Democrats who control California state government to waive costly and time-consuming environmental regulations.

Robot bricklayers and exoskeletons are the “future of construction,” according to a new report.

TEL AVIV – The underground wall that Israel is building to stop the terror group Hamas’ cross-border tunnels from Gaza will also stretch into the Mediterranean to prevent infiltration from the sea, the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. 

Several recent media reports on tight labor markets may have been entirely wrong. New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that the construction labor market is not as tight as these news outlets might want us to believe. According to

A massive landslide in California’s Big Sur has closed a portion of scenic Highway 1, further isolating that region from the rest of the state and dealing a massive blow to tourism in the area.

It’s really all about corporations hoping for more cheap imported labor.

In the span of a few decades, Los Angeles area construction went from an industry that was two-thirds white, and largely unionized, to one that is overwhelmingly Latino, mostly nonunion and heavily reliant on immigrants.

The myth of “jobs Americans won’t do” is once again on the rise.

Due to an shortage of laborers, the Japanese construction market is looking towards robots and drones to fill jobs usually performed by humans.

Walmart announced Tuesday it would be creating 10,000 jobs in the United States this year, a number that’s on par with the amount of jobs the store has created in previous years, as President-elect Donald Trump puts pressure on companies to create more jobs in the U.S.

China has agreed for thousands of migrant construction labourers to work in Israel in a bid to alleviate a housing crisis in the Jewish state, the Israeli government said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – Days after the UN anti-settlement resolution was passed at the United Nations Security Council, the Jerusalem municipality is set to approve the construction of hundreds of homes in eastern parts of Jerusalem this week.

(Reuters) – Britain’s construction industry unexpectedly returned to growth in September, according to a survey that will add to doubts whether the Bank of England will ready more stimulus to offset the hit of June’s Brexit vote. The Markit/CIPS UK

TEL AVIV – Israel has begun construction on a new $530 million barrier along the length of its 37-mile border with the Gaza Strip to be built both above and below ground, aimed at preventing Hamas from building underground terror tunnels into the country.

At least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a structure collapsed at a Tel Aviv building site on Monday, Israeli officials said.

Twenty-two years after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman precipitated the most famous trial of the century, the LAPD is testing a knife that was found years ago but was kept by an LAPD cop in his home until this January.

California employers added 41,200 new jobs in the month of October, as the Golden State’s employment production continues at a 50 percent higher pace than the nation as a whole.