Dane County workers organized with AFSCME Local 720 have been working for the last month on getting what they see as a fairer pay adjustment into the county budget for 2022. On Wednesday night, the County Personnel and Finance Committee voted down the union’s preferred amendment to have a flat two-dollar and three-cent raise for […]
Dane County Workers Argue for Flat-rate Pay Increase
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi introduced his proposed budget on October 1st. Within it, he includes 2 separate 3% wage increases for county employees; one to start at the beginning of the budget period in January 2022 and another to go into effect in July of 2022. Many county workers, however, are arguing against this […]
Healthcare Workers at Oakwood Village in Contract Negotiations with Ma...
Workers at Oakwood Village, a retirement community and assisted living facility in Madison, are currently in contract negotiations with management. The workers are members of SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin, and their current contract is set to expire at the end of this month. Virgie Burton is a certified nursing assistant at Oakwood and a part of […]
Marquette University proposes budget cuts, Union fights back
Marquette University in Milwaukee has announced that they want to cut between 225-450 faculty and staff. The University claims that decreased enrollment due to the COVID-19 pandemic has put them in a tough financial situation, with projections of a $25 million budget deficit. However, the Marquette Academic Workers Union, the union of graduate workers and […]
Milwaukee Art Museum refuses voluntary recognition of Union
Workers at the Milwaukee Art Museum recently went public with their campaign to organize a labor union. According to a statement posted on the union’s website on Tuesday, the Milwaukee Art Museum has refused to voluntarily recognize the union. The whole statement reads “The museum announced to staff yesterday that they do not intend to […]
Union Drive at Milwaukee Art Museum
Workers at the Milwaukee Art Museum recently went public with their unionization campaign. Workers are seeking a union and to affiliate with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, or IAM. Scott Parr is the Assistant Director of District 10 of the IAM. “[Workers] would like to have an equal seat at the table […]
