GET ME REWRITE: Wisconsin GOP leadership white man's world teams up with Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce white man's world to bash low-wage workers

 

Sources:  WMC, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

Wisconsin State Journal, 6/2/2021

Vos, R-Rochester, and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, joined a panel of business owners hosted by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Wednesday to discuss workforce shortage issues in the state, which were present before the COVID-19 pandemic. Many who spoke during the roundtable discussion said enhanced unemployment benefits exacerbate those challenges. 

"It was our biggest problem prior to COVID-19 and it has become an emergency," said WMC president and CEO Kurt Bauer. 

Vos, a business owner, said in addition to eliminating enhanced benefits, the state also needs to "push a little harder to get people off the sidelines."

Meet Devin "Are My Pits Wet" LeMahieu and His Vosness 

 

Original 4/3/2021 post, "Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce "government relations" staff:  It's a GOP white man's world", starts here.

Don't expect any bottled water or a sympathy card from the lobbyists pictured above.

Wisconsin State Journal, 4/1/2021

Wisconsin State Journal, 3/25/2021

Capital Times, 3/17/2021

The Republican-led Wisconsin Legislature has effectively blocked part of the Department of Natural Resources' proposed limits on PFAS contamination. The move comes one year after Gov. Tony Evers signed off on a bill from lawmakers that directed the agency to put forward the language as part of an effort to cap the use of firefighting foam.

Capital Times, 3/30/2021

For some of them, that worry is too little, too late. My friend Craig Koller, who graduated from Marinette High School one year before me, is a three-time testicular cancer survivor who grew up in Marinette drinking rural well water and playing high school football “while watching the plumes of black, acrid smoke drift over us from less than a half-mile away at the Tyco Fire Technology Center.” He’s one of four men in his high school class of 2007 — out of 75 men who graduated that year — who have been diagnosed with testicular cancer. That’s more than 10 times the national average.