Conaway: At minimum, a wake-up call
Starbucks recently lost local court battles and has been forced to hire their employees back who were planning to organize and were fired because of it. (Andrew J. Breig/The Daily Memphian file)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
At a minimum, minimum wages must go up, and employers have to start paying more attention to the welfare of those they employ.
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