NUMB:
961615
VERS:
ORIGINAL
REF:
XXBY:
ALD. D'AMATO
TITL:
Resolution relating to creation of an Early Warning Network to prevent layoffs, job elimination and plant closings in Milwaukee.
ANLS:
- Analysis -
This resolution authorizes and directs the Department of City Development-Economic Development Division to work with the Milwaukee County Labor Council, the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO and other State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, business and labor agencies and organizations to develop and implement an "Early Warning Network" for Milwaukee. An Early Warning Network uses employe knowledge of internal workplace conditions, along with analysis of public information about employers (e.g., annual reports to stockholders, trade journals and credit reports), to identify and address problems within a business that could lead to job losses or the closing of a facility before the employer makes a decision to eliminate jobs or close the plant.
BODY:
Whereas, The Calumet Project for Industrial Jobs, a labor-community coalition in northwest Indiana, has successfully used an approach known as the "Early Warning Network" to prevent layoffs, job cuts and plant closings in that region; and
Whereas, Early Warning systems have also been developed and implemented in Chicago, Massachusetts and western New York State; and
Whereas, The basic philosophy of the Early Warning approach is to prevent or minimize layoffs, business closings and business relocations by using worker monitoring of workplace conditions and analysis of public information (e.g., stock reports, trade journals) to identify and address problems within a business (e.g., poor management, shrinking market for a product line, lack of investment in plant and equipment) that could lead to layoffs, closing or relocation well in advance of the point at which the business decides it has to take one of these actions; and
Whereas, According to an official with the Calumet Project, over 9...
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