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Union pension trustees wield significant legal power over any employer that has contributed to a union pension trust as well as any employer that should have contributed, but failed to do so. Let’s start with an example to demonstrate one way this liability presents itself.

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Union pension trustees wield significant legal power over any employer that has contributed to a union pension trust as well as any employer that should have contributed, but failed to do so. Let’s start with an example to demonstrate one way this liability presents itself.

Tagged with: collective bargaining project labor agreements

The recently completed WIS 116 bridge over the Wolf River in Winneconne has been selected for recognition from America’s Transportation Awards.

Tagged with: WisDOT

With the COVID-19 pandemic showing few signs of abating soon, it’s important to shift one’s thinking from “these are the things we have to do” to “this is the way we do things now — and we can work with that.”

Tagged with: Bruce Morton coronavirus Marsh & McLennan safety

The arrival of COVID-19 caused abrupt changes to construction practices. In a matter of days, things went from business as usual to social distancing.

Tagged with: coronavirus Eric Meier

The June 18 opinion column by State Sen. Andre Jacque is, unfortunately, only an opinion.

Tagged with: Davis-Bacon Davis-Bacon Act letter to the editor

Many businesses moved with alarming speed to transition their workforce out of their physical workplaces to remote locations housed in dens, kitchens and other not-so-traditional spaces.

Tagged with: coronavirus Husch Blackwell

Mass-timber production, barely more than a decade old in North America, is encountering some growing pains.

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As a mom, I remember sitting in the eighth-grade parents’ “Introduction to High School” presentation in our district. As Wisconsin’s former lieutenant governor, I remember the part about higher education options students could choose at the end of high school: university or traditional college, technical college or apprenticeship.

Tagged with: ABC apprenticeships Rebecca Kleefisch

Mauritz A. “Mort” Mortenson, a second-generation patriarch of one of Minnesota’s most successful and recognizable construction companies, is being remembered by friends and family as a humble and compassionate leader.

Tagged with: M.A Mortenson Mortenson Construction