Scott Walker Tries To Use A Back Door To Get Rid Of Wisconsin’s Living Wage Law
Source: thinkprogress.org
Scott Walker Tries To Use A Back Door To Get Rid Of Wisconsins Living Wage Law
by Alice Ollstein Posted on July 6, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Only one hurdle stands between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his upcoming bid for the White House: passing a budget to keep his state chugging for the next two years.
After months of uproar over provisions to slash hundreds of millions of dollars from state universities and strip the values of truth and service from their mission, lawmakers in Madison missed their July 1 deadline to pass the budget.
In the ensuing scramble, Governor Walker and his allies in the statehouse used the 4th of July holiday weekend to insert several more controversial provisions into the massive document, which local press called a grab bag of pet projects. Walker and Republican lawmakers have already been forced to retreat on one of them: a gutting of the states open records law that would have barred reporters and the public from accessing the documents that reveal how laws are written, including drafts and e-mails between state lawmakers.
But the other additions remain, including provisions that censor information about police shootings, scrap factory workers right to one day off per week, and completely eliminate the states 100-year-old definition of a living wage, which now says workers deserve pay that provides minimum comfort, decency, physical and moral well-being. This major change, which has received far less attention than the open records law rewrite, would strip the states Department of Workforce Development of the power to to investigate complaints that an employee is not being paid a living wage, and would replace living wage with minimum wage throughout Wisconsins laws. .................
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/07/06/3677107/scott-walker-uses-holiday-weekend-sneak-controversial-provisions-state-budget/
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)chillfactor
(7,584 posts)that I do NOT live in Wisconsin......
valerief
(53,235 posts)And I'm not even in Wisconsin.
LuvLoogie
(7,027 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)Absolutely unhinged, this stuff shames everyone connected with it. They should be in prison rather than controlling the state.
ybbor
(1,555 posts)What happened to the so called "compassionate conservative" moniker they used to at least attempt to portray?
This Koch led group is disgusting!
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Now it's a sad pathetic state still filled with great workers but being run by thugs who wants to crush their spirit.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)I just don't get how progressive Wisconsin turned into the dark ages.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)how can people not see that? why do they keep voting in these aristocrat wanna bes?
RussBLib
(9,035 posts)The median net worth of the vast majority of US citizens has been dropping precipitously, but I guess it's not yet "enough" to please Walker's corporate masters, so, damn the torpedoes.
This guy better stay far away from the White House.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)I want to see the prevailing wage provision removed!
Jessica Arp ?@news3jessica 2m2 minutes ago
.@SenFitzgerald office confirms that changes to the #Wisconsin retirement system will be removed from #wibudget today as well. #news3
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)and he is lower than a snake fart and smells like one