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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

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 pandemic has only exacerbated homelessness throughout Wisconsin. Since COVID-19 hit in March, ever more people have come to live in tent encampments in Madison, Milwaukee, Wausau, Green Bay and La Crosse, according to the Wisconsin Coalition Against Homelessness.

To curtail climate change over the coming decades, all nations will need to move to energy resources that emit less carbon. This transformation, already underway, will require many new technologies.

Tagged with: U.S. Department of Energy

As many Americans are faced with months on end of being stuck indoors, some are using their time (and money) to provide a change of scenery or imporve their surroundings. Purchases of office equipment are on the rise, and people are becoming ever more willing to take on renovation projects.

Tagged with: Residential Construction

A few weeks back I had a roofing employee with 30 years’ experience pull me aside and ask about all that is going on with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tagged with: coronavirus

This year has culminated in a reshaping of U.S. real estate. A housing shift is occurring in some cities as some people are trading urban areas for the suburbs or rural places.

Tagged with: residential

On Aug. 25, Reason Foundation released a study asking whether state governments should consider long-term P3 leases of their existing toll roads, as five governments (including the state governments in Indiana and Chicago) did over a decade ago.

Tagged with: Robert Poole toll roads

It’s another hot and sweaty summer day, and you see an ad for a sports T-shirt claiming it is made out of a material that will instantly make your skin feel cool. Intriguing, but does it work, and if so, how?

In the midst of the global pandemic, nothing is certain … except endless Zoom calls, taxes and having anxiety over what to do if an employee tests positive for COVID-19.

Tagged with: coronavirus