LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Sen. Jacque’s Davis-Bacon views misguided

June 26, 2020 10:39 am Leave a comment

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

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Dispute over contract leads to drunken brawl between union, Superior officials

August 14, 2018 2:57 pm 1 Comment

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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Industry group skeptical of proposal to suspend prevailing wages on federal highway work

January 24, 2017 1:21 pm Leave a comment

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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Federal court excludes public-private project from Davis-Bacon (UPDATE)

April 6, 2016 2:36 pm Leave a comment

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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Lawmakers seek to lower road costs with swap of federal money

November 5, 2015 2:13 pm Leave a comment

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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FBI investigates Westlawn contractor over prevailing wage claims

November 27, 2013 4:09 pm Leave a comment

Although the owner of a New Berlin roofing company has settled a civil lawsuit and received two years’ probation for related criminal charges, there is no end in sight yet to his legal travails arising from his failure to pay prevailing wages on a Milwaukee housing project.

Scott Watry, the owner of Watry Homes LLC, is still being pursued by claims that he retaliated against a former employee, Heather Ramos, by firing her after he had learned that she had tipped off investigators to his wage violations. Then there is the matter of attorney’s fees: Ramos is arguing that Watry should cover those charged by her lawyer, Nola Hitchcock Cross.

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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Doubling down on prevailing wages

March 1, 2013 3:12 pm Leave a comment

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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Minnesota toys with prevailing wage reform

March 13, 2011 2:00 pm Leave a comment

By Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Unions and open-shop contractors are at loggerheads over a bill that would change the way workers are compensated on state-assisted construction projects. Minnesota House File 722 would modify the state’s prevailing wage ...

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Builders wait for federal PLA rules

June 16, 2009 2:50 pm 3 Comments

Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com A delay in enacting the federal government’s support of project-labor agreements on contracts is frustrating some unions and giving nonunion builders a short respite. President Barack Obama on Feb. 6 signed an order lifting the federal government’s ...

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