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…
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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…
U.S. Marshals come to court here in Aberdeen next Monday to explain to Judge Charles Kornmann where they get off not following his orders and…
The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 304A voted last night to authorize a strike against Smithfield Foods if the company doesn’t come its way in…
South Dakota’s public investment funds haven’t gotten sick from coronavirus. They actually benefited from catching coronavirus relief funds: See that green chunk at the bottom…
KELO Radio notes an analysis of government employment data from the Associated General Contractors saying that South Dakota has had the biggest percentage growth in…