Associated Builders and Contractors Wisconsin CEO Kelly Tourdot on Labor Day weekend extols the organization’s apprenticeship program which this year has graduated 350 apprentices to bolster the construction labor force. Past apprentices, she notes, have since gone on to form their own companies.
The Wisconsin Examiner’s Ruth Conniff writes about a crackdown on immigrant workers at a Wisconsin cheese factory has triggered a backlash and solidarity. She describes how a buy out of a Monroe area cheese factory has thrown its immigrant workforce, many 20 year veterans of the factory, into turmoil.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s James Causey presents a way to solve the poor rate of Black home ownership in Milwaukee. It begins, he writes, with teaching youth financial literacy to close the gap between white and Black residents…