How bad are working conditions at the Legislative Research Council? So bad that the Legislature’s Executive Board says they have to add regular secret meetings…
Tag: labor
I’d suggest Stel Kline could find work out in Kadoka, but the Kadoka Press isn’t hiring or printing anymore. After begging for someone, anyone, to move…
The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office is having the same trouble retaining workers as other employers: Willie Whelchel, Chief Deputy for Pennington County Sheriff’s office says…
Reed Holwegner really doesn’t like communicating with the public. The director of the Legislative Research Council unnecessarily withheld the Ravnsborg investigation file last fall, participated in…
Last month the Sioux Falls City Council approved raises for city employees, a pro-labor move that, coming less than two months before the April 12…
Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation has found the magic solution to the workforce shortage—raise wages: Last summer, starting lifeguard pay was $10.50 per hour. The…
Contrary to Republican bushwah, the “tyranny” of vaccine mandates has not caused a shortage of health care workers at rural hospitals: Rural hospital officials who…
Last night the Sioux Falls City Council approved $2,000 bonuses for most of its full-time employees, a $17.50 minimum wage for city employees, a $500…
Our legislature has hoghoused—i.e., “amended extensively“—just two bills so far. But Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is proposing an honest-to-goodness hoghouse bill to make work…