Wisconsin Professional Employees Council

Even our state's "labor department" is trying to avoid paying worker benefits by hiring "temps". The Dept. of Workforce Development just posted an LTE job to do a nursing survey required by law. See wisc.jobs. Zero paid sick days for the person compiling health data. It's a contradiction, right? Why is our state creating no-benefit jobs? Posting old article here with a nice picture that is relevant.

How about paid sick leave, now? • Wisconsin Examiner Workers speak to difficulties given the lack of paid sick leave, particularly for minimum wage workers. Legislators cite bills that could change that.

Gov. Tony Evers pushed to add Juneteenth and Veterans Day as state government holidays in his last budget. However, the WI legislature did not approve Juneteenth as a paid state holiday, although 32 other states and D.C. have made Juneteenth a paid state holiday

Wisconsin Juneteenth flag raised; paid holiday debate continues Gov. Tony Evers raised the Juneteenth flag over the Wisconsin State Capitol on Wednesday as debate continues over making the observance a paid state holiday.

The WI Civil Service System allows workers to do their jobs even if it will displease a powerful corporation. In this case, an inspector at the state Dept. of Health Services (DHS) investigated and drafted a citation of ProHealth Care Regency Senior Communities, New Berlin (an Assisted Living center) for evicting a 97 year old without following state rules back in 2021. Although DHS proceeded to cite the company, then reversed their decision with no explanation, at least the frontline public worker did her job and held the corporation accountable to the extent she could.

Recent work – Bill Lueders Recent work Bill followed his original January, 2022, investigative story for The Progressive, “I Want To Go Home,” about his mother’s eviction from her senior living community, with further reporting on her case. All over the country, nursing homes and senior care facilities are breaking the ...

Today there are a number of job postings on wisc.jobs that pay $14 an hour and have no paid sick or vacation days. The jobs call for a number of skills including things like driving a small tractor, and working with minimal supervision. Other jobs pay a bit better but not enough to support a good home life for the long term. Public services cannot be high quality when staff are underpaid.

Today we're excited to celebrate Juneteenth, the oldest annual Black freedom celebration in the US. On this day in 1865, Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger proclaimed the end of slavery to individuals in Galveston, Texas.

Learn about Juneteenth from Share My Lesson here: https://sharemylesson.com/juneteenth-activities

President Trump's executive order to replace federal workers with loyalists betrays a foundational American value: that our government works for the people, not for a political agenda.

We will keep standing in the way of this attack on federal workers. https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-condemns-executive-order-replace-federal-workers-political-loyalists

Civil Service protects the public. We need to reverse these erosions of Civil Service.

On Wednesday the White House moved to strip civil service protections from about 8,000 federal workers, including many working at public health agencies.

The executive order effectively transforms these jobs—which include “epidemiologist,” “health scientist” and “toxicologist”—into “at-will” positions, meaning people in such roles can be readily fired without cause. http://spklr.io/6049EMFWx

Civil Service is a basic building block of clean government and democracy. Stop shifting jobs from Civil Service to appointees and at-will employment. It's a recipe for corruption.

Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees.

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