*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: California must improve conditions for the workers who help prevent fires Authors: Robert Collier and Carl Wilmsen

*Source:* Sacramento Bee

*Date: *Nov. 27, 2018

*Summary:* California’s latest mega-fire disasters have refocused attention on the state’s challenge of the future: how to manage forests and scrubland so wildfires will be less frequent and catastrophic. But often missing from the discussion are the underpaid, marginalized laborers who make up much of the state’s wildlands management workforce. Link: http://bit.ly/2P7pOI2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library