Wage Rates For Wisconsin

Even while production has improved throughout the years, workers are not getting paid for their efforts.

SMART and the labor movement have consistently supported laws that support an economy with wages high enough for employees to support their families. SMART works to oppose policies that limit the rights of workers and to support laws that ensure that the wealth produced by our labor is equitably distributed.

We support a wide range of policies to enhance living wages by strengthening and implementing robust worker rights and collective bargaining in our industries and the entire economy of our two countries in order to realize these goals. SMART works to ensure that workers have a powerful voice when they band together to ensure that their interests are represented, whether it be the minimum wage or prevailing wages in the construction industry, the fight for a safe working environment for freight rail workers in railyards and beyond, pay equity for women and people of color, the protection of people who work on passenger trains, buses, or for transit agencies from violence, the restoration of federal overtime protections, or putting an end to wage theft.