Archive for Francois Melese
Strike Out? Blame Fast Food
Dr. Melese is Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Thirty-two thousand members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union recently walked off their jobs. Mostly made up of employees from the two largest grocery chains in Northern California—Lucky and Safeway—the union had an ambitious goal: to preserve [...]
1Sep1995 | Francois Melese | 3 comments | Continued-
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