Evers speech | Trump vs. civil service, birth citizenship | Peoples March | Iowa rollback | Act 10 stayed | Stellantis stays

Evers speech | Trump vs. civil service, birth citizenship | Peoples March | Iowa rollback | Act 10 stayed | Stellantis stays

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio January 25, 2025 Duration: 28:16

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers gives his State of the State speech and we have excerpts on the budget, President Trump goes after the federal civil service starting with  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion administrators and those who work from home, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul talks about the lawsuit filed by Wisconsin and other states against Trump's attempt to remove birth citizenship, a Peoples March was held in Madison and labor voices were there, Iowa considers rolling back child labor standards, Act 10 is kept on the books for now as the implementations demanded to make it constitutional are stayed pending appeal, and for now Stellantis is back to keeping its promise that it won't send jobs overseas.


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