Stories tagged: "workplace safety"

Coronavirus As Wisconsin employers continue to search for workers, a new study has found that the pandemic has hit one portion of the state's workforce especially hard — those over 55.
Coronavirus ‘People Don’t Want to Work’? Maybe They Just Retired Rather Than Expose Themselves to COVID.

Wisconsin already had a Baby Boomer retirement crisis on its hands, the pandemic has only exacerbated the ongoing workforce losses.

Christina Lieffring Christina Lieffring November 30, 2021 3:20 pm CST
Coronavirus Republican state Assembly representatives speak without protective face masks during floor debate on a bill related to COVID-19 on Jan. 7Republican state Assembly representatives speak without protective face masks during floor debate on a bill related to COVID-19 on Jan. 7Republican state Assembly representatives speak without protective face masks during floor debate on a bill related to COVID-19 on Jan. 7Republican state Assembly representatives speak without protective face masks during floor debate on a bill related to COVID-19 on Jan. 7Republican state Assembly representatives speak without protective face masks during floor debate on a bill related to COVID-19 on Jan. 7
Coronavirus Legislative Republicans Not Only Defend Toxic Workplaces, They’ve Created One

After months of inaction, the GOP’s return has spread disingenuousness, misinformation, and likely a dangerous virus.

Christina Lieffring Christina Lieffring January 12, 2021 10:51 am CST
Coronavirus The Seneca Foods vegetable processing plant in Cumberland as seen in a 2014 aerial photo on the plant's Facebook page where work shifts are posted daily in English and Spanish.
Coronavirus This Rural County Doubled Its COVID-19 Cases in a Week

Barron County outbreak blamed on a vegetable processing plant and social gatherings.

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson July 30, 2020 10:04 am CDT
Coronavirus In this May 20, 2020 file photo, residents held thank you signs to greet employees of a Smithfield pork processing plant as they returned to their shifts after the plant had been closed because of a coronavirus outbreak in Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves File)
Coronavirus Workers of Color Make Up 87% of Coronavirus Infections in Meat Plants

A new CDC report studying the impact of the coronavirus on workers at meat processing plants has found that most infections were among people of color.

Associated Press Associated Press July 9, 2020 10:03 am 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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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
Coronavirus The meatpackers of today deserve the respect shown to packers since Green Bay's original Acme Packers football team.
Coronavirus 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