New season, WI legislature steps into the box...looking to take another swing at labor...

[HereSince1628]

You're interest in Wisconsin is likely more about where the WI team's Director of Political Operations is currently testing the presidential election waters...but back in Madison the Team ALEC is looking to smack a homer against wage regulation.... the slugger has pointed at the fence and dedicated this one to ABC Lumber...

This comes from the paragraphs near the bottom of a story on business fears about loss of quality workers following passage of Right To Work for less. What's at risk is how WI government surveys wages and provides information to businesses that set wage standards county by county.


http://peoplesworld.org/wisconsin-companies-join-the-fight-against-right-to-work-for-less/

...These are median standards of what workers should expect to be paid county by county for jobs. It is actually done by government surveys, not by unions, and helps businesses anticipate the costs of construction projects, covering pay scales for everything from painters to laborers, from back hoe operators to ceiling tile installers, from landscapers to carpet layers. Non-union construction companies such as ABC have been chafing for decades not just to break apprenticeship limitations imposed by the state laws but to pay workers lower than these medians.

It may not be as sexy to tea partyers and Walker's presidential ambitions as RTW, but eliminating prevailing wage standards "faster than anything will destroy Wisconsin's family incomes." So noted Dan Bukiewicz, president of the Milwaukee Building and Trade Council, US Rep. Mark Pocan and leaders of non-union worker coalitions, all affected by these standards.

[Scuba]

1. Unless ...

[HereSince1628]

2. Well, we can hope for a better outcome than we got with RTW

But I don't really have high hopes for that on a bill that is about bureaucratic technicalities (even though they can be devastating) and hasn't the celebrity status of RTW.