WASHINGTON — Linda Branch, a 50-year-old personal care worker in Milwaukee, works 20 hours a week making $11 an hour, or around $400 every two weeks. That’s barely enough to make her rent, she told …
Month: October 2014
The Governor Can and Should Raise the Minimum Wage
Issue of the Week:“Did you know that Wisconsin’s governor, on his or her own, can raise the minimum wage? In fact, the governor is required by law to ensure that all Wisconsinites—not just those earning …
Questionable impact: How much influence do Wisconsin governors have over the state's economy?
COWS Associate Director Laura Dresser is interviewed. READ MORE http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/mike_ivey/questionable-impact-how-much-influence-do-wisconsin-governors-have-over/article_0676e91b-7365-583b-a7df-7da3d0a1890d.html
Labor group to sue Scott Walker's administration for minimum wage study
Wisconsin Jobs Now calls for living wage, cites COWS and EPI study: Raise The Floor. READ MORE http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/labor-group-to-sue-scott-walkers-administration-for-minimum-wage-study-b99377616z1-280479242.html
This is an issue that will cost him votes: Will Scott Walkers minimum wage flubs do him in?
COWS calculates that raising the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would lead to pay increases for half a million Wisconsinites. READ MORE http://www.salon.com/2014/10/23/%E2%80%9Cthis_is_an_issue_that_will_cost_him_votes%E2%80%9D_will_scott_walker%E2%80%99s_minimum_wage_flubs_do_him_in/
Workshop: State Preemption of Local Authority
Across America, new municipal and county health, safety, labor and environmental ordinances are the focus of a growing trend: they are being overruled – or “preempted” – by state legislation. That’s why SEIU, the Rockefeller Family …
6 anti-woman policies Scott Walker may want voters to forget
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker spent this week trying to convince women voters that he isn’t as extreme on reproductive rights as his record shows. Between a misleading ad about new restrictions on abortion and dodging …
Economists say higher minimum wages help, not hurt, economy
Raising the minimum wage would help not only workers but the state’s economy, the UW-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy said Wednesday. n Read more http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/economists-say-higher-minimum-wages-help-not-hurt-economy/article_6357f42a-e8f6-5990-b38c-fae58e9a8b2f.html
One in four Wisconsin workers earning poverty wages, says report
Poverty-wage work is widespread in Wisconsin, particularly in food, retail, residential and in-home health care sectors, with roughly 700,000 workers earning less than a living wage in 2013, according to a report released Thursday by …
Eidlin Op-Ed in Truthout
Latest Pro-Labor Reform Proposal Might Actually Undermine Labor n