Home health care workers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the state of Illinois, demanding the administration of Republican Governor Bruce Rauner pay them a 48 cent per hour raise that state legislators included in the state budget.  These homecare providers, primarily women of color, care for people with disabilities for an average hourly wage of 13 dollars an hour, mostly for jobs far less than forty hours a week.

At their national convention Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, the AFL-CIO Farm Labor Organizing Committee celebrated its fiftieth year by launching a boycott of Reynold’s Vuse E-Cigarettes.  FLOC Organizer Catherine Crowe says their membership has been targeting Reynolds American and other tobacco companies for over a decade:

One Wisconsin Now says the $3 billion state tax subsidy Republicans want to give to Foxconn is the largest ever state subsidy to a foreign corporation. Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau says even if the rosiest of projections come true it will take Wisconsin 25 years just to break even on the deal subsidizing Foxconn’s start-up in Wisconsin.