May 09
The South Central Federation of Labor’s Committee on Political Education (COPE) will hold its 54th annual Bean Feed dinner on Wednesday, May 22, starting at 6 p.m. at the Madison Labor Temple (1602 S. Park Street). The meal will be served from 6:00 until 7:15 p.m.
The South Central Federation of Labor is the AFL–CIO …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/05/09/bean-feed-set-for-may-22/
Apr 29
By Barbara Smith
Paid sick leave is a given in public workplaces, but recently it has come under attack in an unlikely place: the Department of Health Services (DHS), the state’s flagship health agency. Outraged, workers are pushing back. “We are working toward paid sick leave for all,” said one DHS worker. “We did not …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/04/29/workers-aim-to-cure-sick-leave-restrictions/
Mar 31
By Karen Veith, MTI member
On February 11th, 2011, teachers across this state received startling news. The Wisconsin State Journal headline read, “Walker to propose stripping collective bargaining rights from state workers.” Just a little more than two years later, daily headlines show signs of further turbulence. Governor Walker’s current budget proposal includes the expansion …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/03/31/voucher-choice-wrong-for-wisconsin-2/
Mar 31
By Robin Gee, AFT-W Local 243
At the February meeting of the Madison Area Technical College District Board, members of AFT Local 243, the union that represents full-time faculty and both part- and full-time staff, filed into the back of the room wearing light blue “We are the best source, so why outsource?” t-shirts and …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/03/31/outsourcing-raises-its-ugly-head-at-madison-college/
Mar 31
By Mark Horn, AFSCME Local 1
April may not seem like the time for ice cream – sure it does. Any time of year is perfect for delicious ice cream, especially when it comes from on of the premier dairies in the nation.
Babcock Hall Dairy is located on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/03/31/try-a-scoop-of-solidarity-at-babcock-hall/
Mar 28
“Immigration rights are labor rights,” said Armando Ibarra, assistant professor from the UW-Extension School for Workers in an exclusive interview with Union Labor News.
Ibarra talked about how the two movements intersect and intertwine. He left no doubt that solving the problems in one was dependent upon solving problems in the other.
Ibarra truly lives …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/03/28/ibarra-explains-labor-and-immigration-connection/
Mar 28
Where did the Revolution Against Greed begin back in 2013? Switzerland? The country famous for cheese, neutrality, and banking excess? Switzerland? Really?
A few weeks ago the citizens of this small, conservative Alpine country did something no other country has been able to do. They brought to heel the corporate bosses whose reckless money grabs …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/03/28/switzerland-mandates-austerity-for-executives/
Feb 25
By Kevin Gundlach, SCFL President
We are in the midst of a jobs crisis here in Wisconsin and the governor’s response is making it worse. The 7% plus unemployment rate is bad enough, but it does not include part-time workers, low-wage workers, and people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits but can’t find jobs, leaving them …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/02/25/gov-walker-has-job-loss-agenda/
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