Faculty Armando Ibarra and Alexia Kulwiec have been awarded funding through the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to further their work in helping to prevent the spread …
Alexia Kulwiec
Pam Fendt, MALC President, guest for Labor Forward Jan 19
School for Workers is excited to continue our live stream interview series, Labor Forward Forum. The forum is a free, online series held on the third Wednesday of the month from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. …
Legal updates 11-16-21
Status of OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard Pursuant to the Biden Administration’s plan to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic, OSHA published a new Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on November 5, 2021. The standard requires employers of 100 …
NLRB updates | July 8, 2021
The National Labor Relations Board continues to have only four out of five seats filled. The term of employer-side attorney William Emanuel will expire on August 27, 2021. To fill the vacant seats, President Biden …
COVID-19 worker relief update
The latest federal COVID-19 relief bill continues some assistance to workers impacted by the pandemic. It will provide an additional $300 per week of unemployment benefits on top of state benefits through September 6, 2021. …
Legal updates
At the federal level, labor has seen some welcome changes this year. While policy has not yet changed dramatically, new agency appointments suggest a brighter future for labor. Marty Walsh has been confirmed as the …
Healthy Workers, Thriving Wisconsin Webinar
The UW Population Health Institute and UW School for Workers invite you to their co-hosted upcoming webinar, Healthy Workers, Thriving Wisconsin. The webinar will be on February 15 at 12 CT and you can register here. This webinar will discuss …
School For Workers partners with University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute to represent workers’ experiences to the Department of Health Services
Faculty members Armando Ibarra and Alexia Kulwiec have partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute to understand how workers are impacted by working through the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn about workers’ experiences, faculty …
Our Work Continues
The needs of workers, unions, and worker organizations are greater than ever as our community continues to operate in these challenging times. Some workers lack appropriate PPE, others struggle to enforce the federal laws intended …
Two more potential policy changes at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Proposed change to the contract bar doctrine Workers at a Montaire poultry processing plant were in the middle of collective bargaining agreement with a UFCW local when a petition to decertify the union was filed …