News & Views
June 11, 2012
‘When Workers Work Sick, It’s Unhealthy for All of Us’: New York’s Battle for Paid Sick Leave
The U.S. is the only rich country in the world that fails to guarantee workers some form of paid sick leave. June 7, 2012 …
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June 9, 2012
The business benefits of earned sick time
Guest Column By Dean Cycon and John Abrams When we started our Massachusetts-based businesses, South Mountain Company in 1975 and Dean's Beans Organic Coffee in…
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June 6, 2012
Paid Sick Days Act makes business sense, says report by Small Business United
Having loyal workers outweighs costs, prevents risk to public health, survey finds Albor Ruiz Right now, in New York, the greatest city in the world,…
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June 4, 2012
Get a Glimpse Behind the Kitchen Door
Cage-free chicken grilled by a sneezing chef. Organic salad brought to you by a coughing server. Are we really eating healthier when we don't know what…
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June 1, 2012
Tell Walmart to Stop Firing Workers for Being Sick!
Today Walmart is celebrating their fiftieth anniversary at their shareholders meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Not everyone will be joining the party. Angela Williamson was recently…
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May 31, 2012
Eeeeeeeeeeeew! Dunkin Donuts! [Quigley Cartoon Blog]
America's noses run on Dunkin' So, let me see if I get this straight. Dunkin' Donuts does not allow its employees to accumulate sick days…
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May 30, 2012
Protest rally at Falmouth Dunkin’ Donuts Friday at 9
Rally tomorrow at Dunkin' Donuts in Falmouth in support of earned sick time 39 locations on Cape Cod alone, Occupy Cape Cod, others join protest…
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May 23, 2012
3 Reasons Why Card-Carrying Capitalists Should Support Paid Family Leave
In business school, we were taught that a solid strategy recognizes the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) challenges facing your business and addresses them. Employee…
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May 23, 2012
Who Speaks for Small Business? Not NFIB
The National Federation of Independent Businesses loves to wrap itself in the flag of neighborhood Mom and Pop shops when it lobbies on Capitol Hill,…
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May 18, 2012
No Cough With My Coffee
About 20 protesters picketed outside the Beacon St. Dunkin’ Donuts Thursday afternoon, demanding earned sick time for the nearly 25,000 Massachusetts employees of the famous…
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