South Central Federation of Labor

Bean Feed set for May 22

admin — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:33:44 +0000

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 …

Workers aim to cure sick leave restrictions

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:19:05 +0000

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 …

Voucher Choice Wrong for Wisconsin

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:09:08 +0000

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 …

Outsourcing Raises its Ugly Head at Madison College

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:14:22 +0000

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 …

Try a Scoop of Solidarity at Babcock Hall

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:09:58 +0000

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. …

Ibarra Explains Labor and Immigration Connection

admin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:15:56 +0000

“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 …

Switzerland Mandates Austerity for Executives

admin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:06:00 +0000

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 …

Gov. Walker Has Job Loss Agenda

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:19:34 +0000

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 …

Social Justice a Habit with Sister Simone

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:17:03 +0000

Sister Simone Campbell seems equally at home on a bus, on the Colbert Report, or in front of more than 200 people at Holy Wisdom Monastery in Middleton for the 13th annual Faith-Labor Breakfast sponsored by the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice.

Although best known for her Nuns on the Bus tour protesting Paul Ryan’s …

Taylor Urges Labor Unions to Take Risks

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:14:20 +0000

ULN sat down with Don Taylor, Assistant Professor at the UW Extension’s School for Workers, for a wide-ranging interview on the state of the union movement.

“There was a time when being in a union was illegal.” Don Taylor from the School for Workers was talking about the ups and downs of the labor movement.

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