Boss Watch

  • What to do if your boss calls you into the office

    What to do if your boss calls you into the office

    o you’ve been called into the boss’s office…and it ain’t to exchange pleasantries! Do you think the meeting will lead to discipline? Is this an “investigatory interview” being conducted? Are you working under a union contract? Are you a public school employee in Alabama? Or are you working in a place without any union protections?…

  • Conservative talk show host violates Federal Law on the air

    Conservative talk show host violates Federal Law on the air

    he Valley Labor Report (TVLR) shares the WVNN airwaves in North Alabama with Conservative talk radio host Dale Jackson (The Dale Jackson Show). And from time to time, Jackson — an employer — will go on power trips and tirades against the working class while on the air. One such recent “power trip” could end up…

  • The workforce benefits of Medicaid expansion in Alabama

    The workforce benefits of Medicaid expansion in Alabama

    or nearly a decade, Alabama has been outside looking in on a good deal. While hundreds of thousands of Alabamians continue to struggle without health insurance, state leaders have failed to expand Medicaid. A few loud voices have politicized an issue that never should have been political. And our state has paid the price in…

  • BOSS WATCH: 12/15/23 – 1/5/24

    BOSS WATCH: 12/15/23 – 1/5/24

    Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, December 15 and Friday, January 5 —TEXAS HARASSER— South Austin Nissan, a car dealership in Austin, Texas, operated by NICPA Central Auto Group, LLC, subjected female employees to sexual harassment and retaliated against employees when they reported the harassment the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…