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.
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.
A lawsuit in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court could determine if construction workers and their counterparts in other industries are owed pay for time they have to spend putting on uniforms and safety gear at job sites.
The Wisconsin attorney general says he most likely would defend in court the state law that effectively stripped public employees of collectively bargaining rights.
Two Wisconsin operators unions have filed suit over Wisconsin's well-known Act 10 law, arguing aspects of the legislation curtailing unions' bargaining powers deprive them of free-speech rights.
A federal judge has sided with an electrical contractor who fought to block a union benefit fund from obtaining non-union employee records as part of a routine audit.
Gov. Scott Walker is attacking his Democratic opponent over his support from labor unions, the day after a poll showed Tony Evers was slightly ahead in the race.
Leah Vukmir is used to being the underdog. Few gave the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Wisconsin much of a chance of defeating her better-funded primary challenger last month, but she prevailed thanks largely to support from the party establishment.
Weighing in on the country's construction-labor shortage, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari told a group of contractors last week that businesses are doing “extraordinary things” to attract more workers.