Category: Labor
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Equal Rights and Workers Rights: One City’s Struggle
Everybody has a hometown. Mine is Chattanooga, Tennessee. This week, Chattanooga has been in the news for two issues that you wouldn’t normally see the city associated with… and no, I’m not talking about the fact that the Chattanooga Mocs football team is 8-2, Southern Conference Champions for the first time since 1984 and looking…
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Corporate Obligations
Does corporate America have an obligation to help solve America’s problems? 2012 may be known as the year the US Auto industry makes a full recovery but 2011 was certainly a year of record profits for oil companies, and well, okay, 2012 will probably be the same. But what about other American companies, that are…
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Historical Perspective
Newt Gingrich is not a stupid man. A graduate of my undergraduate alma mater Emory University (we both graduated with a B.A. in history), and a recipient of a Ph.D. in History from Tulane University, Newt Gingrich in many ways is accurately labeled the “thinking man’s Republican.” Admittedly, his Ph.D. is in modern European History,…
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4-Day Workweek?
I wasn’t aware that municipal and state governments were experimenting with a four-day workweek, but it’s certainly an interesting idea. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman launched the “4/10” workweek — 10 hours a day, Monday-Thursday — for thousands of employees in 2008 to improve efficiency, reduce overhead costs and conserve energy at a time when…
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Random FYI
Former Labor Commissioner and US Senate candidate Mike Thurmond become Of Counsel for the firm of Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer. In making the announcement on Tuesday, the firm said Thurmond will focus on personal injury cases, product liability, class actions and whistleblower claims. Good for him.
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Partners for Equality
How appropriate that Women’s Equality Day and Labor Day occur within a a few days of each other. In addition to fighting for equal treatment for women in the workplace, organized labor was an early an influential partner in the fight to for women’s suffrage. The Georgia Federation of Labor led the way by endorsing…