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Proposed fee increase to Downtown Eau Claire Farmers Market
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - A proposed fee increase is forcing many Downtown Eau Claire Farmers Market vendors to consider tough choices - either raising their prices significantly or pulling their booth altogether. According to Eau Claire Finance Director Kitzie Winters, the farmers market had a contract with the city...
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A day in the life of the Von Rudens
WESTBY, Wis. — On a crisp fall morning, Brett Von Ruden walked across the driveway at his home and turns the lights on in the barn to prepare for morning milking. He is the fourth generation to flip that switch in the Von Ruden barn as he raises the fifth generation with his wife, Nicole.
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12 Wisconsin Meat Markets That Deserve More Attention From Local Food Lovers
One small-town butcher shop on this list has been filling its meat case since 1952. Another one makes Swiss-style sausages, which tells you plenty about who settled that corner of the map. I love that kind of detail. Wisconsin gets endless credit for cheese, but its meat counters carry just...
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winonajournal.com
WinCraft yanks line workers’ chairs, then yields
WINONA, Minnesota — Nobody would ever call Sharon Langve a rabble-rouser, but the 71-year-old production line employee at WinCraft, one of Winona’s largest employers, maneuvered the company into reversing a worker-unfriendly policy change. A boss in Langve’s 30-employee unit were told in September that their chairs were being take away. They would need to stand all shift at their tedious assembly benches. The change, unexpected, was alarming for Langve, who has two artificial knees, and also for co-workers with leg and back issues. An immediate suspicion was that WinCraft, which has 360 employees, was not budget-cutting — getting rid of senior employees and replacing them newcomers at lower starting wages. No, no, explained bosses. The workplace floorplan was being redesigned to increase production, which squeezed outs space for chairs. Either way, this is what happened next: