Stories tagged: "workers rights"
Mark your calendar: November 30th is "National Stay Home Because You're Well Day."
Wisconsin already had a Baby Boomer retirement crisis on its hands, the pandemic has only exacerbated the ongoing workforce losses.
Wisconsin's minimum wage has been a measly $7.25 for more than a decade. Most state residents say it's time for an increase.
The 2017 repeal of prevailing wage rules resulted in fewer local contractors getting work, declining blue-collar wages, yet no savings for state government.
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.
