New Orleans A lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center named Jim Knoepp found a way to get my attention when he was quoted in a story about potential employment discrimination between United States workers and immigrant farm labors, saying, “Think of trash collection. That’s not very appealing, either. But if you offer decent wage …
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Tesco, Once the Walmart Killer, Limps out of USA
Little Rock It was only a bit more than 6 years ago when grocery unions feared that Tesco, the giant United Kingdom grocery conglomerate, might have found the secret sauce in both beating unions and Walmart although with labor’s West Coast containment strategies as they entered Los Angeles with what seemed a nearly unbeatable …
When Will We Recognize Direct Care Worker Crises
New Orleans Most people – and politicians – don’t recognize the real contributions of direct care health workers until their lives or the lives of loved ones depend on them. And, when I say, depends on them, I mean for everything from mobility, to feeding, to bathing, to the most basic and private needs that …