Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.
Workers ... do not eat legal rights but bread. History, especially recent history, gives much evidence to support the contention that men want security more than freedom and that for an indefinite time they may be successfully governed by a dictator who keeps in mind the maxim that 'contented cows give the best milk.'
What people who are doing shift work or managing shift workers or deciding to put people on shift schedules to begin with should realize that we're not robots.
The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.
Trade unionism is not a discovery or a formula. It grew and evolved slowly out of the needs of human experience.
So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time.
Every worker needs a decent and legal source of income.
I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.