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 …
Category: Advocates and Actions
Role Model Standards Are in Flux
Marble Falls I admit it. When I started thinking about the day, Novak Djokovic, the deported tennis star and his arrogant and narcissistic vaccination position was on my mind, and how athletes were poor choices as role models in society. Then Martin Luther King, Jr. popped into my head which was a strange combination, despite holiday, but the …
Kleptocrats Gone Wild with a Lot of Enablers
New Orleans Talking to Frank Vogl on Wade’s World he began by making sure I understood that “no offense” was meant, when he said to me, “Suppose you were Vladimir Putin and you had gotten several $100 million from Gazprom, the biggest gas producer in the world, and you wanted to move it out of Russia …