Governor Kristi Noem has flattened the curve of vacancies in the Department of Corrections. According to DOC officials speaking to the Joint Appropriations Committee in…
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In another win for workers, protest from Corrections employees who were promised fairer holiday pay last summer but saw no action from the Governor has…
In keeping with our economic dependence on socialism, government employs more South Dakotans than any other industry sector. According to the Bureau of Finance and…
Senators Mike Rounds and John Thune have both advocated making more visas available for foreign workers willing to come work seasonal jobs here in labor-starved…
The biggest issue causing the workforce shortage is something that President Joe Biden wants to fix but which South Dakota’s Republican leaders have resisted—more affordable…
KELO-TV looks at the death and destruction wrought by the tornado that wrecked an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, last Friday and asks whether the…
Smithfield Denies Wrongdoing But Pays Paltry OSHA Fine for Coronavirus Hazards; Workers Disappointed
In September 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Smithfield Foods $13,494, the maximum allowed by law, for failing to protect its Sioux Falls…
South Dakota’s continued to rack up coronavirus deaths through October about as fast as it did a year ago, but our covid-recklessness appears to have…
Smithfield Foods must not have gotten the memo that it’s a worker’s market. In a press release issued Friday, the United Food and Commercial Workers…
A couple weeks ago, KELO-TV reported that South Dakota has 29,000 job openings advertised online in the state’s SDWorks database. This morning that figure is 28,294.…