Tag: labor

If you don’t have any hilarious job interview stories, you just haven’t been in the workforce.

It sounds like giving up, and I guess in a way it is. I refer to the Great Resignation—the huge number of people who are quitting their jobs, a trend triggered by the pandemic.

I do not believe in prophecies, but I am willing to predict one thing: the world of work as it was in 2019 will never return. How it will mutate is impossible to guess.

The documentary is now available for viewing by visiting www.vimeo.com/thelastharvest/film. This free screening will be limited through the end of 2021.

Last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report on projected changes in the U.S. workforce between 2020 and 2030.

Life in America these days is expensive—a fact that I expect will come as news to exactly 0 percent of readers.

Effective Oct. 21, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at all U.S. ports of entry will detain fresh tomatoes produced by the tomato farm Agropecuarios Tom S.A. de C.V., and Horticola S.A de C.V., and their subsidiaries.

The rising cost of labor not only costs produce companies on the bottom line, but it may be costing them on the top line as well.

Whether we are talking about retail, produce, or any other industry, the single most important thing in getting and keeping first-rate employees is to make sure that they feel “valued and heard.”

As our industry laments another loss of our biggest in-person event of the year, with the Produce Marketing Association’s cancelation of Fresh Summit next month in New Orleans, we still have to deal with the realities in our daily careers.