Fake-wrestling promoter and Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon came to South Dakota this week to tell some Trumpy lies: Her visit to DeGeest Steel Works…
Tag: labor
When drugmaker Bayer set out to acquire seedmaker Monsanto, it said the merger would create jobs. Now, less than six months after sealing the deal,…
Wages are up down on the farm! New stats from USDA show hired hands in the Northern Plains Region (ND, SD, NE, KS) made 7%…
Knowing they can’t win on South Dakota issues or their personalities, Republicans are desperate to make South Dakota’s 2018 election about national issues that our…
One of my District 3 ticketmates, Democratic House candidate Justin Roemmick, includes the $15 minimum wage in his pro-worker platform. I’ve thought that we might…
Donald Trump’s used-car salesman hyperbole disgusts me. Yesterday he posted this propaganda bleat to Twitter, in which he stands in front of the White House…
If you or someone you love works for a living (well, that should catch everybody!), you’ll enjoy my next public forum on labor rights: Monday’s…
Some racist jerks are throwing KKK flyers around Sioux Falls… with candy. Sticking messages of racial hate in plastic bags with suckers and dropping them on the street…
Apparently South Dakota isn’t the only state where employers and policymakers are capable of ignoring the obvious. Employers nationwide are responding to 3.9% unemployment by trying…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says our K-12 education system is failing the majority of students by not preparing them all to get post-secondary degrees: Are we…