Courtesy / Maine AFL-CIO Pre-apprentices in the Union Construction Academy of Maine’s first cohort had hands-on training in the field.

AN epidemic of bad kicking has engulfed the AFL and unless clubs change their obsessions with workloads and training levels the skills of AFL will only get worse, says Chris McDermott.

HELENA-The Montana AFL-CIO has been ordered to pay back $47,515 in disallowed federal job training spending, with state Labor Department auditors questioning how the union group spent an ...