Representatives of the dump-truck industry left a meeting with state lawmakers earlier this month with a sense that they’d probably get some sort of government relief for the ills they say have long plagued their industry.

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After 25 years in the dump-truck industry, Ron Lingford decided to sell his six trucks in January and get out for good.

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The U.S. Labor Department is considering revising federal Davis-Bacon rules, possibly resulting in the first overhaul in decades of the formula used to set prevailing wages on federal projects.

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

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Superior city council members' decision to award a public contract to a non-union company turned into a barroom brawl during an encounter at a local saloon, leading to the arrest of two union officials.

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A member of the U.S. Senate says his bill to eliminate prevailing-wage requirements on federal highway projects would allow federal tax dollars to be spent more efficiently.

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A prominent East Coast construction union has lost its fight to have a public-private project fall under federal prevailing-wage requirements.

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By helping local governments avoid federal prevailing wages and regulations on road projects, lawmakers are hoping to make the state’s tight transportation budget stretch further.

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A New Berlin contractor is being investigated by federal authorities for allegedly lying about paying prevailing wages to those who worked on the city of Milwaukee’s first phase of the Westlawn revitalization project.

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Wisconsin’s prevailing wage laws should be changed so projects covered by the federal Davis-Bacon Act also would not be subject to the state’s standards.

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