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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 action at Starbucks on MLK Day

January 16, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Starbucks to be target of union organized protest Some  of the organizers behind the Jimmy John’s Workers Union are also leaders within a similar group called the  IWW Starbucks Workers Union.  This group claims to have won holiday pay for Starbuck’s baristas working on the Martin Luther King  Day holiday, following after [...]

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Jimmy John’s and a Union: Big Swing, narrow miss

October 24, 2010

Jimmy John’s Workers Union In case you missed the story, a union election was held Friday, October 22 that could have been a landmark moment in labor relations history -  the formation of one of the first unions representing fast food workers in the United States.  Instead, the workers of the 10 Jimmy John’s sub [...]

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Why I need to know where I am at all times

June 1, 2010

Image by shapeshift via Flickr Why I like using Geolocation services I have been messing around with geolocation applications such as Foursquare and Gowalla for a  while now without really understanding why.  I don’t really care that I am the Mayor of my house, or that I get displaced every other day as the Mayor [...]

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Getting Strategic with the HR Bartender

July 2, 2009

Image of Sharlyn Lauby One of the best sessions I saw in New Orleans was “Fail to plan, or plan to fail” presented by my blogging buddy, Sharlyn Lauby over at HR Bartender. Sharlyn used a great mix of information, humor and practical advice to drive home a major point: If you want to be [...]

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