This is a story whose reach extends from the lowliest working stiff to the highest court in the land. It concerns a massive corporate-driven rejiggering of the social contract with regard to access to the courts, impacting a huge segment of U.S. workers and virtually every consumer. And it’s something most people have never even heard about. More>>
Category: Wisconsin
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Smoking Gun: Walker Used Group to Snare Corporate Cash
Try as he might, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker can’t seem to shake allegations of criminal activities involving his campaign. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, dominated by conservatives elected with help from the same dark-money groups that supported Walker, last year shut down an investigation into illegal coordination with these groups and ordered the collected evidence destroyed. More>>
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Walker’s Supreme Court Pick: Affirmative Action as Bad as Slavery
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a past and possibly future GOP presidential contender, has just tossed a dripping hunk of red meat to his party’s conservative base by appointing to the state Supreme Court a lawyer who believes affirmative action is as morally reprehensible as slavery and that allowing same-sex couples to wed “will eventually rob the institution of marriage of any discernible meaning.” More>>
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NLRB to Bust Menards for Labor Law Violations
The National Labor Relations Board, in response to complaints prompted by an article in The Progressive, has found that the home improvement giant Menards committed multiple violations of federal labor law. More>>
See also this update, Menards Settles with NLRB, Agrees to Stop Violating Employee Rights
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“Nobody here but us nonpartisans”
?Three candidates are vying for one Supreme Court seat this spring. Although all three insist they’re nonpartisan, they each have strong partistan ties. More>>
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Scott Walker’s Administration Bad News for Wisconsin’s Right to Know
In 2015, Wisconsin advocates for open government faced a disquieting truth: If we want to preserve our state’s tradition of transparency and accountability, we must fight for it, against powerful players who will be fighting back. >> More
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Last Call — Cheap Shots, 2015
A year of shattered assumptions deserves a round of Cheap Shots.
Some years back the novelist Jonathan Franzen released his great book The Corrections, about a family coming to terms with itself. That’s sort of what happened in Wisconsin this year; the veneer was stripped away, forcing a more honest assessment. Good thing? Bad thing? You decide. >>More
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Menards, Under Fire, Backs Down from Threat to Managers Over Unionization
The home improvement giant Menards is apparently removing language from its employment agreement with managers that threatens to slash their pay should the work areas they supervise opt to unionize. >>More
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Managers at Menards Stand to Lose Big Money if Unions Form
It’s not just a long-rumored threat, it’s a promise put in writing. The employment agreement for managers at Menards, the home-improvement giant, imposes a substantial cut in pay should the workers under their supervision form a union. >>More
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Is There a Bomb in Your Backyard?
Nukewatch, an anti-nuclear group based in Luck, Wisconsin, has just released a revised edition of its book Nuclear Heartland, mapping the location of 450 land-based nuclear missiles in the United States. >>More
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Wisconsin Republicans: “The More Money in Politics, the Better.”
Here are three words that should probably never be applied to the Republicans who control the Wisconsin state legislature: They wouldn’t dare. Take the recent passage of legislation to bar the future use of John Doe investigations to look into allegations of political misconduct. >>More
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Walker Exits, Stage Right
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker dropped out of the race for President not with a bang but a whimper. >>More