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Wisconsin bill would ban cities from passing worker-friendly laws

Leave a Comment / State Government / By max cyril

Wisconsin is considering a bill that would prevent local governments from enacting worker-friendly ordinances relating to overtime, discrimination, benefits, and wages. On Wednesday, the Senate held a public hearing on the GOP-backed bill. The bill, Senate Bill 634, would prevent local municipalities in Wisconsin from increasing the minimum wage, stop enforcement of licensing regulations stricter than state standards, …

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Canadian Mounties to the Rescue of American Workers

Leave a Comment / Free Trade / By max cyril

The Canadian Royal Mounties have offered to ride to the rescue of beleaguered American workers. It doesn’t sound right. Americans perceive themselves to be the heroes. They are, after all, the country whose intervention won World War II, the country whose symbol, the Statue of Liberty, lifts her lamp to light the way, as the …

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Labor unions are trying to take back politics in the Midwest

Trump is about to make America much crueler to unionized workers

The Entire Public Sector Is About to Be Put on Trial

Leave a Comment / AFSCME, Public Workers / By max cyril

Within the next year, the Supreme Court is likely to rule on the latest existential threat to workers and their unions: Janus v. AFSCME. Like last year’s Friedrichs v. CTA—a bullet dodged with Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death—the Janus case is a blatant attack on working people by right-wing, moneyed special interests who want to take away workers’ freedom …

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Scott Walker Implements Backdoor Way To Drug Test People For Unemployment Benefits

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

Under current law, states aren’t allowed to institute drug tests for unemployment benefits. But that hasn’t kept Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) from trying. In July, Walker approved legislation that would implement drug tests for both unemployment benefits and food stamps, neither of which are currently permissible. To get his way, he’s suing the government …

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What Scott Walker’s Elimination Of Wisconsin’s Living Wage Law Means For Workers

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage / By max cyril

Last year, 100 low-wage workers in Wisconsin decided to sue their governor, Scott Walker (R), over their pay. The state had a century-old statute on the books saying that the minimum wage “shall be not less than a living wage,” enough “to permit an employee to maintain herself or himself in minimum comfort, decency, physical …

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Scott Walker’s Forgotten War Against the People of Milwaukee

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Before he was governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker was Milwaukee county executive. Foreshadowing how he’d govern the state, Walker spent his time as county executive slashing Milwaukee’s safety net. As governor, he can do that by pushing and signing laws that lower the bar the state is trying to clear in taking care of its …

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