The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would expand labor protections. Written By: Maria Lockwood | ×
Members of the Northern Wisconsin Building and Construction Trades protest the use of nonlocal labor to build the new Cobblestone Hotel in downtown Superior in March. (Shelley Nelson / 2021 file / Superior Telegram)
A labor rally in support of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act will take place starting at noon Saturday, May 1, in Superior s Center City Park, on the corner of Belknap Street and Tower Avenue.
The event will include speakers, live music and information. It is being organized by the Twin Ports Democratic Socialists of America and has been endorsed by the Superior Federation of Labor and Duluth Central Labor Body.
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Wisconsin United Auto Workers, AFT, AFL-CIO and IBEW endorse Dr. Jill Underly By Dr. Jill Underly - Mar 3rd, 2021 10:52 am
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Pecatonica Area School District Superintendent and candidate for Wisconsin State Superintendent
Jill Underly announced today she has received the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers Wisconsin, the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers of Wisconsin, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Dr. Underly is also the recommended candidate of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.
“Our membership is committed to advancing high-quality public education in Wisconsin, and Dr. Jill Underly is the candidate who will stand up for kids in our schools,” said AFT Wisconsin President
After years of wage freezes, a union representing 225 UW System trade employees negotiated a 1.81% raise for this year, which ended up being less than the 2% raise their non-union colleagues received.
The seemingly bizarre inversion of what union membership has historically meant for workers highlights the new world under Act 10 and raises questions as to why public employees even bother unionizing any more.
Act 10 severely limited collective bargaining for the majority of public employees and decimated the number of unions through annual recertification votes and other obstacles. But those unions that still exist a decade later are finding ways to survive and even grow their numbers.
Workers at Wisconsin Voices say they were fired to shut down unionization. //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
Wisconsin Voices workers at a Fair Maps fundraiser earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Voices Workers.
When workers at Wisconsin Voices told the progressive organizing and fundraising group that they had formed a staff union, they hoped the group’s leaders would accept their choice.
Wisconsin Voices has for years partnered with dozens of like-minded grass-roots activist groups involved in voter registration, racial justice, climate change and other issues. Many of its partner organizations have close ties with organized labor, and some have collective bargaining agreements with their own employees.