New Orleans Worker mobility is always of interest in the United States, especially when companies are scrambling during the pandemic and post-pandemic labor shortage that is helping fuel worker organizing across the country. Are workers really making big moves now to expanding job markets, or are we being fed some kind of boosterism …
Category: Workers
The Great American Un-resignation
New Orleans Doggone it! It’s never easy to find the reverse gear on opinions that have become comfortable and well-worn. I loved calling this concept of the Great Resignation of workers reacting to the pandemic by leaving their jobs and sometimes the entire workforce a “silent strike.” I’ve written about it, talked about …
Dollar General Workers Up the Ante on Starbucks
Pearl River The movement moment of workers standing up to employers to demand their rights, and, in many cases, seek to organize a union to protect and advance those rights in the future, continues to pick up steam. The evidence continues to mount. More than 200 petitions have now been filed by Starbucks workers, …


