Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: Assembly Committee on Labor, Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin, bill, Mary Williams, Mielke, prevailing wage, repeal, reporting, Sinicki, state budget, Toles
By Paul Snyder
Political resistance and timing could spoil the construction industry’s chance to speak out on a bill that would repeal the state’s new prevailing wage law.
“If we’re just looking at repealing all the work we did last year to get this into the budget, I don’t know that I’m going to hold a hearing,” [...]
Published: February 18, 2010
Tags: ABC, Assembly Committee on Labor, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin, Balko, Construction Business Group, Eagle Construction, Kahl, law, Mary Williams, Mielke, prevailing wage, reporting, Sinicki, state budget, threshold
By Paul Snyder
A bill that would repeal every prevailing wage law change enacted in last year’s state budget faces long odds in the Democrat-controlled Legislature.
State Rep. Mary Williams, R-Medford, has drafted a bill that would reinstate a threshold of $234,000 as the point at which prevailing wages must be paid on public projects. The threshold [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Tags: Assembly Committee on Labor, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., iron workers, Iron Workers Local 8, ironworkers, Jorgensen, journeyman, master, Mielke, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, safety, state licensure, Teska, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Department of Commerce
By Paul Snyder
Backers of a bill requiring ironworkers to be licensed in Wisconsin say safety is at the core of their effort. But they lack evidence showing that the ironworkers or the public would be safer with state licensure.
Nationally, data show accidents among ironworkers declined during a recent five-year period despite more people working in [...]
Published: November 10, 2009
Tags: Assembly Committee on Labor, Bergan, budget, debt, insurance, James Buchen, Mark Honadel, Tom Fisher, unemployment, unemployment insurance, Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council, wages, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
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By Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance budget has slipped into the red and is projected to be more than $2 billion in debt in each of the next four years.
To avoid that crisis, state lawmakers are working on a bill, to be introduced in spring, that would offer possibilities to stem the bleeding.
But there will not [...]
Published: October 20, 2009
Tags: Assembly Committee on Labor, BlackBerry, cell phone, D-Green Bay, D-Stevens Point, iPhone, Rep. Jim Soletski, Rep. Louis Molepske Jr., texting, Wisconsin Assembly, Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance
Wisconsin Senate passes bill to ban texting by drivers
Madison (AP) — Texting would be banned for all Wisconsin drivers under a bill that passed the state Senate on Tuesday.
The measure originally would have applied only to drivers under age 18. But the Senate voted to change it to apply to all drivers after some [...]
