Ian Houston Memorial Day in the United States falls on the last Monday of May. The day honours military personnel who died in the performance of their duties while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Around each Memorial Day, I set time to visit various monuments in Washington, DC in quiet remembrance of the fallen. The Vietnam War Memorial is particularly moving. Of the 57,939 individuals remembered on the memorial’s granite wall there is one brave Scot. His name was Alexander Chisholm. Alexander was born in 1941 in Dumbarton Castlehill west of Glasgow and grew up in Quarry Knowe. By all accounts, he was a gregarious, smart, and kind person who was beloved by his family and friends. I think of Alexander as a young boy and lad at Dumbarton Academy working through his lessons, and training as a young man to be an engineer at a local factory having no sense of what his future held.
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25 May 2021
The public’s rising demand for higher wages is causing turmoil in business sectors that have become reliant on cheap labor ensured by the federal government’s high immigration, wage-cutting policies.
Michael Kanell at Georgia’s AJC.com provided an example in the restaurant sector:
Jamie Oden bought an Amici restaurant franchise in Fayetteville which she plans to open later this month. To be fully staffed, she needs about 25 people. She has fewer than 10.
“We have been struggling to find help,” she said. “No one would even apply.”
She did increase pay by $2 an hour for some cooks and food prep workers. But her business plan called for paying dishwashers $10 or $12 an hour, and at that wage, she couldn’t fill those jobs. “I had people who applied and said they just wouldn’t work for less than $16 an hour.”
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