To the editor: The North Shore Labor Council of the AFL-CIO condemns the behavior of Marblehead Town Administrator Thatcher Kezer for his continual and habitual disrespect towards town employees throughout the collective bargaining process. Members of the Marblehead Municipal Employees Union, represented by the IUE-CWA Local 1776, have been forced to continue working for … [Read more...] about LTTE: Labor Council condemns Kezer’s obstruction
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Higgins: Automation could be a problem in retail theft
Sean Higgins Headed into the holiday season, the retail industry is wrangling with a surge in shoplifting and possible solutions to prevent theft. The upsurge may be an inadvertent consequence of another trend: automation. With stores now having fewer people minding them, thieves have felt emboldened. Trade groups are pushing for new federal legislation to help fix the … [Read more...] about Higgins: Automation could be a problem in retail theft
Shribman: Lost in the circus acts, Putin’s declaration chills
Nearly lost in the week’s news — the nomination of an iconoclast to run the nation’s health agency who is at odds with the nation’s health experts, and an account of the former congressman chosen to be the chief law enforcement officer who, according to witnesses, had sex with a 17-year old near a pool — was a small item that has the potential of triggering a nuclear war. Amid … [Read more...] about Shribman: Lost in the circus acts, Putin’s declaration chills
Shribman: What’s to come for Trump 2.0
The ballots are counted (and in some few places, recounted). The blame is being distributed (but only in one of the two parties). The lawn signs have been struck (but some are being kept as collectibles, reminders of dreams redeemed or dismantled). Yet several mysteries remain, and a passel of new ones has emerged. It is, at times like this, the mysteries that matter as much … [Read more...] about Shribman: What’s to come for Trump 2.0
Walsh: Neither Nixon nor Trump
Jim Walsh Perhaps the most basic and fundamental idea of our democratic republic is the notion of “checks and balances.” That is, no one person, no one institution, has unchecked power. To say, today, that our form of government is under threat is an understatement. The coming months and years may be the most important and consequential since the eras of Civil War or the … [Read more...] about Walsh: Neither Nixon nor Trump