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Month: September 2022

WisBusiness: the Podcast with Laura Dresser of COWS

Posted on September 16, 2022

Dresser shares her perspective on demographic trends affecting the workforce, as more workers age out than the number joining the labor market. This issue is particularly significant in rural parts of Wisconsin, the report notes. …

Posted in In the News

New Report Shows Improved Employee Power in Wisconsin

Posted on September 13, 2022

A recent workforce study from a UW policy institute says that conditions have broadly improved for Wisconsin workers. We speak with the associate director of the UW-Madison think tank COWS about how national labor trends …

Posted in In the News

From Cooks to Nurses, Wisconsinites are Organizing for Better Work

Posted on September 9, 2022

Dresser, whose organization recently published the 2022 edition of its “State of Working Wisconsin” report, pointed to the spike in union activity as “the forefront” of a wider surge in labor organizing that also includes non-unionized workers …

Posted in In the News

Union Organizers Share their Experiences as the Economy Shows Workers their Power

Posted on September 8, 2022

“It isn’t a time of retreat from work, it is a time of engagement and workers taking this moment to recognize the power they have,” said labor economist Laura Dresser, associate director of COWS and …

Posted in In the News

COWS Report Shows Progress in Reducing Wage Disparities

Posted on September 2, 2022

A new report from a UW-Madison think tank shows wage growth in the past two years has helped to close some of the state’s “pronounced racial and ethnic disparities.”

Posted in In the News

Report: Wages, Union Organizing Rise in Wisconsin as Workers Demand Better Conditions

Posted on September 2, 2022

“If I was going to pick a single year to think of the best possible picture for workers in this century, I would pick this year,” said Laura Dresser, a professor in the UW-Madison Sandra …

Posted in In the News

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