February a short, disappointing month.
Via WLUX.
NEWS OF WISCONSIN (AND SOMETIMES POINTS BEYOND)
Chinese workers for Wisconsin mine?
Someone, anyone, has to do it.
Via Cognitive Dissidence.
Left advances a ‘Back to Work’ budget
Someone gets the bill.
Via Cognitive Dissidence.
Union begs tech school to stop training nonunion workers
Because there’s nothing worse than a well-trained workforce.
Parts of Act 10 still unconstitutional
State of Wisconsin will have to keep appealing.
The Gateway Tech College Referendum
All the details on a proposed $49-million-dollar expansion.
Via Wisconsin Happy Farm.
GOP bills would let firms cut worker hours without union talks
Under Assembly Bill 15 and Senate Bill 26, a company that lost a portion of its business could seek state approval to reduce workers’ hours. A firm that lost 20 percent of its business could identify a group of affected workers and cut them back to four days a week, instead of laying off 20 percent of them, Griffiths said. Those whose hours were reduced could collect unemployment benefits to replace some of their lost wages, and benefits would not be affected, Griffiths said.
Unions’ changing frontier after the loss of public-employee collective bargaining
The scene from Walworth County, February 2013:
Two union spokespeople: Betsy Kippers, vice president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) and Martha Merrill, lead research analyst for The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) arrived at the Walworth County Democratic Party office in Elkhorn this week to talk about their new frontier and how they plan to claim it….
Via Wisconsin Happy Farm.
Milwaukee County employee says former Chairman Holloway groped her
Former Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway – who retired last year after a 20-year run as one of the county’s most polarizing and powerful politicians – is being accused of sexually assaulting a county worker on his final full day in office.
The woman, whose name is redacted in records, filed a complaint last week with the state Equal Rights Division stating that she was the victim of sexual discrimination. She worked for the county at the time of the incident but was not an employee in Holloway’s County Board office.
Wisconsin job growth lags most of America
The sobering report shows the state’s work force has failed to keep up with even the weak growth seen in the rest of the country since the 2001 recession.
Since 1996, the state has outperformed the nation in creating jobs only 27% of the time. That’s a marked reversal from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the state consistently beat the national growth rates.
From June 2010 to June 2012, the state logged 2.3% job growth, below the 2.8% posted by the country as a whole.
WisDems unveil jobs plan
But they can’t pass anything without GOP support.
Via Channel 3000.
WPS Health Insurance sacks 450
Shifting sands.
Via 620 WTMJ.
Dairy farmers demand immigration reform
Business necessity.
‘Insidious today, irreversible tomorrow’
Fracking in Pennsylvania, mining in Wisconsin.
Via Wisconsin Happy Farm.
Left blasts Wis mining bill as ‘end of common sense’
Likely to pass regardless of anyone’s opinion.
Via Fighting Bob
Udders-up dairy plant lets jobless workers pick up their personal possessions
Golden Guernsey dairy not so golden after all.
Via 620 WTMJ.
