…Silent on Payday Lending and Youth Minimum Wage The Brookings Area Chamber of Commerce has the cash to buy a big chunk of the local…
Tag: Initiated Measure 23
An eager reader shares this letter from Avera Health to its thousands of South Dakota employees urging them to vote No on Initiated Measure 23, the “fair…
“No on everything!” is often just an ignorant default position for voters too lazy to come up logical reasons for their positions on the ballot measures. In his Sunday…
Woe unto the voters who get their information exclusively from television. KELO-TV takes a “Closer Look” at Initiated Measure 23, the fair-share union dues measure. Their “Closer Look”…
Anti-union forces are hitting South Dakota mailboxes with their first pitch against Initiated Measure 23, the fair-share union dues proposal. An eager reader forwards this flyer funded…
A lawsuit over West Virginia’s new anti-labor “right-to-work” law helps us understand what’s at stake in South Dakota’s Initiated Measure 23, the fair-share union dues proposal.…
Our friends in labor (union guys, not imminent moms) were working McGovern Day last Saturday spreading the word about Initiated Measure 23. Evidently wanting to solidify my vote,…
In this week’s Convergence File, a Scalia-less Supreme Court deadlock has left the door open for a pro-union ballot measure in South Dakota. Back in January,…
From Ken Santema’s video, here’s my two-minute drill on Initiated Measure 23, the “fair-share” union dues proposal: As I’ve noted before, strengthening unions is one component of a broad…
What’s another way to fight corruption in South Dakota? Support unions. Beleaguered employees at the South Dakota Developmental Center in Redfield may pursue unionization to better…