Construction groups at the forefront of combating Wisconsin's labor shortage are seeing little sign of it letting up.

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Labor unions and the Michels family of Michels Corp. renown were significant contributors to opposing attorney general candidates in August, according to recent campaign filings.

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The labor union AFSCME Wisconsin announced on Tuesday that it will back the Democrat Tony Evers in his race against Gov. Scott Walker this fall.

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For more than 30 years, the Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council Apprentice and Training Center in DeForest has taught prospective workers a slew of jobs in construction — and how to do them safely.

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The Tony Evers campaign and two prominent construction unions hit the road this week on a tour to taunt Gov. Scott Walker over his transportation policies. But despite union backing and a new poll that foretells a neck-and-neck governor’s race ...

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A Republican lawmaker who defied state party leaders by pushing for prevailing-wage repeal faces a cash disadvantage in a race to best a GOP challenger in Tuesday's primary election for a state Senate seat.

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Wisconsin's Senate District 10 special election was seen by many as a preview of things to come in the 2018 mid-term elections. It also appears to have served as a sort of proxy battle between union and non-union groups in the construction industry.

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The start of 2017 will mark a watershed moment for the Wisconsin construction industry.

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An apparent fall in construction-union membership in the same year that Wisconsin became a right-to-work state has labor officials shaking their heads and struggling to square the statistics with their actual experiences.

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Although one of Wisconsin’s largest union pension plans for retired construction workers recently took a step backward, it’s nowhere near having to reduce payouts in order to remain solvent.

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