Stories tagged: "labor"

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Economy Minimum Wage Workers Say, ‘I Wonder How I’m Going to Make It,’ as Candidates Debate

Biden offers first pay raise in 11 years while Trump threatens a veto and offers tax cuts.

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson October 16, 2020 2:30 pm CDT
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Jobs GOP Killing a Wisconsin Wage Law Didn’t Save Money, It Just Gave Construction CEOs a Raise

The 2017 repeal of prevailing wage rules resulted in fewer local contractors getting work, declining blue-collar wages, yet no savings for state government.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski October 5, 2020 8:00 am CDT
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Work Thousands of Workers Are Going on Strike for Black Lives Today. Here Are Their Demands.

Tens of thousands of frontline workers across the country are going on strike Monday to protest systemic racism and police brutality and to demand that corporations and the government take action to address white supremacy, end economic exploitation of Black workers, and allow all workers to unionize.

Keya Vakil Keya Vakil July 20, 2020 9:19 am CDT
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Work Labor Organizers: Here’s How McDonald’s Could Really Show It Believes Black Lives Matter

Fight for $15 and union organizers want the corporation to pledge $61.2 million to cover 10% of workers for additional sick leave for two weeks.

Emiene Wright Emiene Wright June 15, 2020 1:32 pm CDT
Coronavirus Workers in health care, hospitality, food processing and other industries say the Wisconsin Supreme Court order to kill the safer at home rules will make workplaces less safe.
Coronavirus Killing ‘Safer at Home’ Means a Lot of People Won’t Feel Safer at Work

Progress made in containing coronavirus in Wisconsin may already be backsliding

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson May 14, 2020 4:02 pm CDT

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vaccine sign outside Milwaukee mill road library Coronavirus Library Clinics? Door-to-Door Vaccines? Milwaukee Is Getting Creative To Get Shots In Arms
Derrick Van Orden (Via Derrick Van Orden/Facebook) Politics GOP Congressional Candidate Testifies Against Mask-Wearing Before School Board Drops Requirement
Julian Thomas Elementary School in Racine, built in the 1850s as Garfield School, will receive updates as part of the $1 billion referendum district voters passed in spring 2020. (Photo via Julian Thomas Elementary/Facebook) Education Are Schools Infrastructure? Ask the Wisconsin Students and Educators Using Buildings Dating Back Over 100 Years.
A nurse fills a syringe with a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson-owned Janssen Pharmaceuticals. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images) Coronavirus The Price of Vaccine Hesitancy: More Than 1,000 Wasted Doses a Week in Wisconsin
Coronavirus The city council in Green Bay will consider a proposal on Tuesday to direct some of its federal coronavirus aid directly to frontline workers
Coronavirus Green Bay Plans to Give $100K to Frontline Workers – Including Meatpackers

The city plans to use some of its federal coronavirus relief to help essential workers.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski May 11, 2020 3:32 pm CDT
Opinion The meatpackers of today deserve the respect shown to packers since Green Bay's original Acme Packers football team.
Opinion Support the Packers. All the Packers.

For more than a century, meatpackers have been taken for granted as ‘not regular folks.’ That should change.

Pat Kreitlow Pat Kreitlow May 8, 2020 11:42 am CDT