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Labor leader rips Doyle for wage deal
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| Last Edited | Penguin Jun 02, 2005 12:32am |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Madison Capital Times |
| News Date | Thursday, June 2, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By David Callender
June 1, 2005
Gov. Jim Doyle's deal with lawmakers to raise the statewide minimum wage in return for signing a law barring Madison and other communities from setting their own rates is drawing fire from some labor leaders.
"All this really does is raise the minimum wage to $6.50 an hour six months sooner than if he had done nothing," said Jim Cavanaugh, president of the South Central Federation of Labor.
"In exchange for that, he's permanently negotiated away the ability of local governments to pass their own minimum wage laws to pressure the Legislature into raising the statewide wage," Cavanaugh said.
Cavanaugh, who was a member of the joint labor-management task force that recommended the higher statewide rate, said the deal "undermines the ability of the council he appointed" to make similar decisions in the future.
And he added that he would "personally have no interest in serving on future task forces in the Doyle administration if this is the way we're going to be treated."
In his most stinging criticism of Doyle, Cavanaugh suggested the first-term Democratic governor's role model "seems to be Tony Earl," the last Democrat to serve as governor before Republicans held the office for 16 years.
"Tony Earl made some mistakes in terms of ignoring his base, and Doyle seems to be doing the same thing," Cavanaugh said, adding that he believes Earl was a one-term governor because of those mistakes. |
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