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…
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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…
One possible reason for South Dakota’s low wages and nationwide, wage stagnation over the past generation: declining union membership. Marketplace visits with Washington University professor Jake Rosenfeld, who…
South Dakota business owners predicted a variety of problems would arise from the voters’ 2014 decision to raise our minimum wage from the federal $7.25 per hour…
The South Dakota Democratic Party gave South Dakotans the opportunity to vote on raising South Dakota’s minimum wage in 2014. Voters responded by approving a 17% increase in…
Just days after 150-some Aberdeen residents gathered to hear a California speaker rally them to reject refugee resettlement and the recruiting of immigrant laborers, a major Huron…
The Partnership for a New American Economy has just issued a series of reports on the “Contributions of New Americans” in all fifty states and…
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.…
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump announces his economic plan today. Well, maybe not his plan, but the plan cooked up by twelve rich men and…