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A plan to provide up to $20 million in city financing for Milwaukee Tool's new downtown office, which could have up to 2,000 employees, received its first public approval Thursday. But that was only after a labor organization raised concerns about the lack of a community benefits agreement on wages, benefits and working conditions for janitors and other employees of outside vendors at the future office. The Redevelopment Authority board unanimously recommended approval for the financing plan, which also needs Common Council approval. But those same concerns likely will surface at the proposa...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to reduce income inequality is echoed in Joe Biden's $15-an-hour minimum wage proposal Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Melinda Harmon was working at Fiserv Forum and was laid off. She is now at Family Dollar, working fewer hours. She is hoping for a $15 minimum wage so she doesn't fall further behind on rent and bills. Melinda Harmon is 39 and has two boys at home, ages 14 and 20. Before the pandemic struck, she was working at Fiserv Forum where, under a "community benefits agreement" ...

We're all resolutely opposed to this budget repair bill. it does not seem to help higher education in wisconsin. it does a lot to hurt working families in this state. and that's why we've been so opposed to it. that's why we've been over here for over a week, camping out to make sure our voices are heard in a democracy. when governor walker listens to the voices of the working folks that are here in this capitol, we expect that the right thing will happen, and that worker rights will be protected. >> peter, do you really think public sentiment is going to turn on the governor now that these ta...

Campaigns to support this, you can make one phone call and get in to him. but the people, the taxpayers like myself, in wisconsin, can't. it blows my mind. >> does this sway the public with you, kevin? more so than it was? do you think that the wisconsinites and residents are going to view this as a really negative thing, and does this rip the scab off the problem? what do you think? >> well, i think it's really changed some people's opinions. i know a lot of people i've talked to today were disgusted with what he had said on these tapes. whether it was republican friends of mine, our own peop...

Likening public workers to drug addicts. he said, they're acting like their drug is being taken away from them. which brings me to the drugs for himself rush limbaugh. he's called our teachers and nurses and firefighters bottom feeders and freeloaders. today mr. limbaugh suggested that public workers in this country are taking park in organized crime. >> the union as a money laundering operation, public sector unions for the democratic party is now under assault. now people are learning that the collective bargaining of public sector unions is simply stealing from the taxpayers. >> he is calli...