Strikes

This year marks the 40th anniversary of a landmark ruling that reaffirmed the 1837 treaty rights of a northern Wisconsin tribe to hunt, fish and gather on ceded territory. In 1983, two brothers from the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fred and Mike Tribble, were arrested for spearfishing outside the boundaries of…

U.S. Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders came to Racine Friday to show support for striking CNH Industrial workers. Members of United Auto Workers Local 180 have been on strike since early May and continue to picket outside the CNH Industrial plant where Case tractors are made. The union says it’s fighting for…

A Marine from Kenosha is recovering after being injured in the blast outside the Kabul airport that left 13 United States service members dead. Lance Cpl. Romel Finley III was critically injured in the suicide bombing Aug. 26 that killed more than 170 people. The Kenosha News reports he’s now recovering at Walter Reed National…

Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher on Tuesday defended a U.S. airstrike on a top Iranian official ordered last week by President Donald Trump, but disagreed with the president’s comments about potentially targeting Iranian cultural sites if tensions escalate. Trump ordered the airstrike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani last Friday. The military action has…

Connie Batayias had been in the airplane one, maybe two hours, when the pilot came over the PA system to announce that all planes had to land as soon as possible. His voice was quivering. It sounded like he was crying. The date was Sept. 11, 2001. “He didn’t tell us exactly what happened,” said…

A union and a northern Wisconsin manufacturing company have reached an agreement after union workers went on strike this week. The union was pressing the company for better wages, pension and health care benefits. The Ashland Daily Press is reporting that C. G. Bretting Manufacturing Co. and the Local 621 union with the International Association…

Despite its wholesome associations with with goodness, mothering and love, milk has also occasionally been a source of conflict. In Wisconsin, low milk prices during the Depression led some farmers to reduce supplies of milk by pouring it out as part of what became know as the “milk strikes.” Things got so heated that on…

Labor Day traditionally marks the last weekend of summer (though many kids have already started school). But it’s also, of course, a day to remember and celebrate the accomplishments of the labor movement with parades, picnics and, as the above photo demonstrates, rides in little trains. The growth of manufacturing and industrialization in Wisconsin and…