Pigs, Beef, McDonalds, and Green Century

Advocates and Actions Corporate Responsibility Ideas and Issues Wade's World

              Marble Falls      We all know McDonalds.   It’s a brand known around the world.  The company has made so many billions of hamburgers under the golden arches that they no longer build signs that calculate the numbers.  Many today likely don’t realize that they ever did.  McDonalds is simply a fact of life.  …

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Talking Union to Starbucks Baristas

Advocates and Actions Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Unions

  New Orleans      Starbucks workers in more than sixty stores have filed for representation elections with the NLRB.  The company, no doubt looking for a way to pushback, recently fired seven workers in one of its locations in Memphis, Tennessee.  They are sending a message, but how are workers and customers supposed to respond …

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