KELO-TV looks at the death and destruction wrought by the tornado that wrecked an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, last Friday and asks whether the…
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Smithfield Denies Wrongdoing But Pays Paltry OSHA Fine for Coronavirus Hazards; Workers Disappointed
In September 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Smithfield Foods $13,494, the maximum allowed by law, for failing to protect its Sioux Falls…
South Dakota’s continued to rack up coronavirus deaths through October about as fast as it did a year ago, but our covid-recklessness appears to have…
Smithfield Foods must not have gotten the memo that it’s a worker’s market. In a press release issued Friday, the United Food and Commercial Workers…
A couple weeks ago, KELO-TV reported that South Dakota has 29,000 job openings advertised online in the state’s SDWorks database. This morning that figure is 28,294.…
Whether or not you call child care infrastructure, providing working parents with safe, nurturing, and affordable child care is vital to our economy. If parents…
Governor Kristi Noem and other Republicans made it sound like the unemployed were just lazy layabouts living entirely off extravagant unemployment benefits and if we…
16 out of 32 responding South Dakota construction firms added workers over the last twelve months, according to a 2021 Workforce Survey from the Associated General…
Oglala Sioux Tribe Ambulance Service workers may be going on strike today to force the tribe to pay them what they are worth. Low pay…
The pork industry can’t afford to wait for workers to “Call me when you’re an American.” The National Pork Producers Council says that if we…