By: Nate Beck, nbeck@dailyreporter.com October 6, 2020 3:27 pm A would-be class-action lawsuit accuses Faith Technologies of Menasha of violating its fiduciary duty to employees by offering a retirement plan that charges exorbitant fees and consistently under-performs the market. Faith Technologies oversees a retirement plan worth $172 million for 3,400 workers. The federal lawsuit, filed last week, accuses… Read more »
OPINION: Davis-Bacon essential to protecting middle-class prosperity With a $1 trillion infrastructure investment package on the horizon in Washington D.C., the common workers would expect that the Trump administration, US Congress, and US Senate work diligently to raise the prosperity of American workers. Unfortunately, some Wisconsin politicians like State Sen. Andre Jacque seeks to attack… Read more »
OSHA: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) the following memo regarding Revised Enforcement Guidance for Recording Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) May 19, 2020 MEMORANDUM FOR: REGIONAL ADMINISTRATORS STATE PLAN DESIGNEES THROUGH: AMANDA EDENS, Deputy Assistant Secretary FROM: LEE ANNE JILLINGS, Acting Director Directorate of Technical… Read more »
(MADISON, Wis.) – Governor Evers’ budget contained important worker and taxpayer protection provisions. It reinstated state prevailing wage laws (which protect against low road out of state contractors winning public works projects), repealed a provision mandating that trade unions give people membership rights without paying membership dues, and repealed a statute restricting local municipalities’ contract… Read more »
The overwhelming majority of apprentices in Wisconsin are registered with Building Trades programs, not ABC programs. ABC has no apprentice programs for ironwork, masonry, heavy equipment operation or painting.
An economic impact analysis conducted by the renowned University of Utah Economics Professor Peter Philips found that ABC apprenticeship programs contribute only 5% of the total dollars spent on apprenticeship training in Wisconsin. Under collective bargaining, Wisconsin’s union contractors and building trades provide 95% of annual apprenticeship, post-apprenticeship and other training expenditures. Professor Philips further… Read more »
The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) (and allied groups) claim to speak for the construction industry, but they’re really a small contractors’ group whose agenda is to promote low wages, bad training and unsafe worksites. Learn the truth before believing their hype. Source
LANSING – The Associated Builders and Contractors-Michigan – the anti-union construction group which backed last year’s effort to repeal the state’s prevailing wage law – is certainly better at lobbying lawmakers than it is at training the next generation of construction trades workers.
LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD), with the support of the AFL-CIO and LIUNA, today jointly released the findings of a first-ever state-by-state comparative analysis of the Associated Builders and Contractors trade association, better known as the ABC. The findings expose a pattern of data manipulation… Read more »