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Your company may be homophobic

January 31, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Associate Resource Groups at Walmart Home Office I didn’t know that Walmart had Associate Resource Groups like these, devoted to creating diversity and minority communties inside their company. I don’t know how effective they are, or anything more than that they have them, but it was kind of a pleasant discovery.  I [...]

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What protected concerted activity looks like

January 18, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Protected Concerted Activity at Starbucks Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees are granted the right to engage in collective action aimed at improving the terms and conditions of employment in their workplace.  employers are prohibited from taking disciplinary action against employees for doing so, or otherwise taking any type of retaliatory [...]

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Labor Day brings new organizing effort aimed at Jimmy John’s restaurant chain

September 6, 2010

Image by Debs (ò‿ó)♪ via Flickr Unions remain interested in organizing the restaurant business Franchisees of the restaurant chain Jimmy John’s are facing a new organizing effort from the Jimmy John’s Workers Union, which is supported by the IWW, the same group that has been working to organize Starbucks in Minneapolis, Michigan, New York, and [...]

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DOH! Stupid Statistical Paradoxes anyway!

December 7, 2009

A Late Carnival Arrival This is a guest post from Jeremy Shapiro aka HRMetricsguy, from Hodes iQ.  He initially submitted to run as part of the Carnival, but it was way past the deadline, and I had some guest post opportunities coming up this week, so I am running it today.  I hope you enjoy [...]

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Eau de Social Recruiting Summit

November 16, 2009

Image by birgerking via Flickr It stinks that I can’t be at Social Recruiting Summit! Good luck to everyone involved with the event today, especially my good friend Laurie Ruettimann who will be the host, whatever that means! Attendees are in for a real treat today in that they get to see Fred Wilson speak.  [...]

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The Final Wrap – ERE Expo

September 15, 2009

Part-time Conference Attendee I attended  portions of the Fall 2009 ERE Expo that was held at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood Florida last week.  I had to miss quite a few of the sessions as I had other meetings to take care in the Miami area on this visit.  This provided a bit of a [...]

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17 hot button issues for labor unions on Labor Day

September 3, 2009

Celebrating Labor Day Starting this afternoon, Human Race Horses is on vacation in Clayton, Georgia for the long Labor Day weekend.  I’ll be back on Tuesday as I will heading to South Florida for a work assignment and to spend some time at ERE Expo.  I will be live blogging from there with the hashtag [...]

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