Hey! David Novstrup! Did you read your Governing update this morning? I opened my copy and thought I’d found one little shred of data that might,…
Tag: labor
In February, Iowa passed a new law limiting the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees. AFSCME, which represents public employees, sued right away; now the Iowa teachers’ union…
Dakota Free Press Podcast #004 is ready for your ears! https://dakotafreepress.com/wp-content/podcast/DFP004.mp3 After our Veto Day conversation, Republican Representative Drew Dennert was willing to sit for another 20-minute chat…
It’ll take more than one New York Times report about an ill-timed trip to Mount Rushmore (whose 3,500 words aren’t as negative as some headline readers might conclude)…
South Dakota agriculture relies on immigrant workers to bring in the crops, cattle, and milk. Another big South Dakota industry, tourism, relies on foreign labor to cook, clean, and…
(Forgive me as I try to talk like my xenophobic neighbors. I’m just trying to understand them… and point out the failure of their political…
Thanks to Amendment R and Senate Bill 65, the vo-techs can finally get local school boards out of their hair, if they want. Thanks to House Bill…
Among the anti-labor measures big businesses are pushing Congress to pass is a repeal of the National Labor Relations Board’s joint employer standard. In August 2015, the…
For further proof that our Republican Legislature gives not one darn about real family values, we turn to Monday’s defeat in committee of House Bill 1120, a…
South Dakota Codified Law Chapter 11-11 authorizes the South Dakota Housing Development Authority to make up for the failure of the free market to provide sufficient affordable housing and…