Arkansas Blog

I would ask our leggies one thing: What has all our anti-labor, pro-management laws and rulings brought us? New factories and bidness are not flocking here, in fact they bypass here because only an obviously ignorant work force would tolerate such conditions. Today's jobs are not for the ignorant.

It's still very much a plantation mindset here, LWood. As long as the rich continue to get richer, the leg doesn't see a problem.

I'm retired, but if I were starting a business, and I've owned a couple, there's no way I'd start it here. Anyone but a fool would go where 1) incomes are above average, 2) workers have above-average educations, and 3) people who aren't white protestant republicans are tolerated.

Horse, my old econ proff from the 60s lectured us twice about sawmill town economics and a little politics. He mentioned that those of us who planned to remain needed to learn it cause that's the way things are. Of course he encouraged us to be sawmill managers.
Sure enough I come to UoA-Fay and while in a labor relations class a kid with a new Camero takes issue with the proff's attitudes about workers...he spurts out something like "my diddy owns uh sawmill and he said those thangs about worker involvement don't ever work out."