Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) gets a keen example of how South Dakota loses talent due to low wages from his economics classroom at Augustana:…
Tag: labor
The South Dakota Legislature took one tentative step in the right direction this year by prohibiting health care providers from imposing non-compete clauses on doctors…
America added 850,000 new jobs last month, the best gain in ten months and, like many other data points amidst the coronavirus pandemic, a historically…
How does Sioux Falls solve its workforce shortage? Simple, say the shorthanded landscapers at Weller Brothers of Sioux Falls: raid Aberdeen’s workforce! I’d be curious to…
In our discussion of forces behind America’s current worker shortage, regular commenter “O” noted that one contributing factor is “the nativist anti-immigrant fervor that resulted…
Last month I wrote that South Dakota’s Republican leaders are scapegoating pandemic unemployment assistance for the long-standing worker shortage that at least a decade of…
Off message this week: Secretary of Labor Marcia Hultman, who tells South Dakota News Watch that pandemic unemployment benefits are not the primary cause of South…
Meatpacking workers have risked their lives during the coronavirus pandemic to keep bacon and wienies in our fridges. They deserve rewards for that hard labor.…
Critics of South Dakota’s economic policies often complain that South Dakota pads its rosy employment reports by failing to count joblessness on our Indian reservations.…
Ah, union power—after flexing its muscle with a 99% vote in favor of a strike, UFCW Local 304a got Smithfield to agree to raise the…