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National Hispanic Heritage Month Profile of Labor Leader Ernesto Galarza

Leave a Comment / Labor Movement, leadership / By max cyril

Throughout National Hispanic Heritage Month, the AFL-CIO will be profiling labor leaders and activists to spotlight the diverse contributions Hispanics and Latinos have contributed to our movement. Today’s profile features Ernesto Galarza. Ernesto Galarza was born in Jalcocotán, Nayarit, Mexico, in 1905 and immigrated to California with his family after the Mexican Revolution began. As a youth, …

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Civil rights champion Thomas Perez being nominated for labor secretary

Leave a Comment / labor, leadership / By max cyril

President Obama’s nomination of assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez for labor secretary becomes official today after more than a week of increasingly solid rumors. Perez has headed the civil rights division of the Justice Department since 2009; previously, he has been secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, a member of …

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11 Scrooge Approved Employee Motivation Ideas You Should Never Use

Leave a Comment / accountability, leadership, management, men's workplace issues, MinimumWage, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

What is the #1 way to increase motivation in the workplace? Well, we have our pet motivational theories and ideas, but we wanted to explore some of the horrible, terrible, Scrooge-approved ideas that are still floating around in the year 2012. But back to the bad ideas. We gathered some stories from around the internet …

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McDonald’s Urges Franchises to Open on Christmas Day … Without Overtime Pay

Leave a Comment / accountability, competition, discrimination, economy, Education, Employment, Equal Opportunity, equal pay, executive pay, federal pay, Income inequality, leadership, Migrant Workers, MinimumWage / By max cyril

In November McDonald’s saw a 2.5 percent increase in November sales. This is after the fast food giant saw a decrease in sales of 2.2 percent in October. So why was there increase in sales? Was the pork-like substitute McRib back? Was there a shortage of Ore-Ida french fries in your local grocer’s freezer causing …

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Mob Rule? At Work?

Leave a Comment / job satisfaction, leadership, monitoring / By max cyril

Okay, this is yet another article about the current wave of protests in the Middle East and the implications for the rest of us (in the case of this blog, for the workplace). A strained metaphor? Undoubtedly. Annoying? Hopefully not. Important? Well, what do you think I’m going to say after spending the past two …

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Poor Leaders Can Decrease Worker Productivity By Up to 40 Percent

Leave a Comment / CEO Performance, Entrepreneurs, Human Resources, job satisfaction, leadership, management, performance, productivity, SmallBusiness, WinningWorkplaces, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

As Newswise reports, based on employee engagement research by Florida State University business school professor Wayne Hochwarter, recession-based uncertainty has encouraged many business leaders to pursue self-serving behaviors at the expense of those that are considered mutually beneficial or supportive of organizational goals. This plays out in behaviors that Hochwarter’s team classified using the biblical …

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“We Can’t Hire You. You’re Overqualified!”

Leave a Comment / job search, Jobs, leadership / By max cyril

One of my favorite cartoon characters is The Wizard of Id. A few years ago I read one of the Wizard’s cartoon strips and it made such a profound impression I cut it out and saved it. Darn! I have misplaced it over the years. However, I can remember the script almost word for word …

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The King Has No Clothes, Lebron’s Lessons For Work

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The Lebron-a-thon reminded me of an old Vietnam era joke. One soldier turns to another and asks, “What’s the difference between the Marines and the Boy Scouts?” The second soldier shakes his head saying he doesn’t know. The first smiles and says, “The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.” The Lebron-a-polooza proved one thing, a group …

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