Legislative

This article appeared in the July/August 2019 edition of the Merit Shop Contractor Magazine. Justice Kelly, endorsed by ABC of Wisconsin, highlights his thoughts on what it takes to uphold the [...]

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of Wisconsin is working with the Wisconsin DSPS to resolve the backlog of commercial building permits ...

Measure twice, cut once. The most unused tool for most contractors is their accounting system. There are few tools that can help either make more money – or help you to lose it all – more than [...]

Posts on the Wisconsin Contractor Blog were read more than 48,500 times in 2018, according to a review of website statistics by ABC of Wisconsin. Throughout the year, ABC of Wisconsin uses the [...]

ABC members may want to use the Governor-elect's budget priority sessions this month to share issues important to them, specifically, how 1:1 apprenticeship ratios, the elimination of prevailing [...]

ABC of Wisconsin Vice President Kelly Tourdot was featured on the inaugural edition of “RuralCast” – a podcast created by the Rural Wisconsin Initiative – to discuss apprenticeships and workforce [...]

Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin scored two decisive legislative victories this spring, as Gov. Scott Walker signed two bills into law that will help address the skilled labor gap.

There have been three significant changes to Wisconsin public contracting law over the past couple of years: the state prevailing wage is gone, all units of Wisconsin government are banned from [...]

very legislative session, thousands of ideas are introduced, and Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin's government affairs team does its level best to keep an eye on all of them. [...]

Hard work involves high-risk activities. To work safely, workers must be physically and mentally alert. This means that fatigue is an enormous risk. Employers and employees have a responsibility [...]