Published: June 7, 2010
Tags: apprenticeship, Balistreri, Berth, DWD, Jerry Ann Hamilton, Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Paul Blackman, Regional Training Partnership/Big Step, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Comments: 2
By Sean Ryan
The level of minority participation in construction apprenticeships is frustrating the leaders of the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP.
But members of the industry charged with improving participation rates say the high unemployment rate in construction makes it impossible to place any new apprentices.
“This is the worst construction recession since the Great Depression,” said [...]
Published: May 21, 2010
Tags: A.C.E. Building Service, ABC, Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin, Dane County Circuit Court, Dipko, DWD, Gregory Reesman, Janke, Janke General Contractors, John Markson, Reesman's Excavating & Grading, Stan Johnson, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Comments: 3
By Paul Snyder
Nonunion contractors either are scrambling to prepare monthly and, in some cases, overdue state prevailing wage reports or congratulating themselves for following the correct hunch.
Steven Janke, president of Athens-based Janke General Contractors Inc., said he continued to file prevailing wage reports with the state for the past five months even though a lawsuit [...]
Published: May 20, 2010
Tags: Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., Construction Business Group, Dane County Circuit Court, prevailing wage, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
By Paul Snyder
The state’s prevailing wage reporting requirements that were on hold while a judge considered a request for an injunction are back in effect.
Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Markson Thursday denied the request for an injunction by the Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin Inc. The ABC had sought the injunction to block [...]
Published: April 14, 2010
Tags: Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., Carroll Electric Inc., Clean Energy Jobs Act, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Department of Administration, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, WPPI Energy
Comments: 1
Wisconsin lawmakers’ move to let the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin determine labor standards on energy projects is drawing heavy criticism from construction industry representatives.
Published: April 1, 2010
Tags: Aacer Flooring, Bamberger & Polsky SC, Bay Area Workforce Development Board, Beck, Chaet, debt, DWD, jobs, Peshtigo, plant, Polsky, receivership, Todd Braun, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wolf River Lumber, Wolf River Lumber Inc.
By Paul Snyder
The possible closure of Peshtigo-based Aacer Flooring LLC and its affiliate, New London-based Wolf River Lumber Inc., does not mean the companies’ 222 employees will lose their jobs.
Michael Polsky, an attorney with Milwaukee-based Beck, Chaet, Bamberger & Polsky SC, is representing the companies, both of which went into receivership this week, and said [...]
Published: March 26, 2010
Tags: ABC, Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin, Dahms, Dane County Circuit Court, Dipko, DWD, Halverson Bros., Mielke, prevailing wage, spreadsheet, Thimm, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wondra Construction
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
Construction companies in Wisconsin are not convinced a revised prevailing wage reporting spreadsheet from the state will make their jobs any easier.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development has pared down what had been a 50-field spreadsheet to 34 fields, but Roger Thimm, controller of Iron Ridge-based Wondra Construction Inc., said the reporting will [...]
Published: February 12, 2010
Tags: A&A Environmental, Ahern Gross, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin, Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin, Badger Well Drilling, Ballwanz, Construction Business Group, DWD, Forrer, Gassman, Jim Doyle, Kahl, Masonry Restoration, Mielke, prevailing wage, Sopha, spreadsheet, Steffes, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
Construction companies are disputing the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development’s claim it adequately prepared the industry for changes to the state’s prevailing wage law.
The changes require contractors file monthly reports on prevailing-wage payments on public works projects valued at $25,000 or more. DWD first made the 50-field reporting spreadsheet available in January, weeks [...]
Published: February 10, 2010
Tags: Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., Dane County Circuit Court, Dipko, DWD, H & N Plumbing and Heating, Henkel, injunction, law, Markson, Mielke, Ortiz, prevailing wage, report, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
By Paul Snyder
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development’s stated goal of helping the industry navigate prevailing wage reporting does little for a payroll administrator in Fennimore who still is waiting for help.
On Feb. 3, with the Feb. 7 reporting deadline approaching, Mandy Henkel of H & N Plumbing and Heating Inc. sent an e-mail request [...]
Published: February 9, 2010
Tags: Baucus, benefits, Bergan, Buchen, Carpenters Local 314, debt, DWD, extension, Hixson, Hohlstein, Honadel, unemployment, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
Comments: 5
By Paul Snyder
The debate over how to replenish Wisconsin’s unemployment budget will grow more pointed if the federal government grants a state request to extend benefits for 99 weeks.
But matters of debt, even if the debt grows beyond the state’s $1.1 billion unemployment budget deficit, need to take a back seat to the specter of [...]
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