Going back well over 20 years, the department and its members have tried to bring about a dress uniform for the sworn members. Last week’s graduation marks the first day these new uniforms and the new patch were showcased, as well as the first Boston Police Academy...
For the first time, NAUMD has taken on a summer intern. Twenty-two year-old Michael Winters is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is studying global communications. He is interning with NAUMD for college credit, and to gain experience in the...
When Maj. Melissa Elledge was a brand-new soldier ploughing through basic training, she had to find gear shortcuts simply to accomplish basic tasks, such as firing her weapon. “I spent the whole 10 weeks of basic training with a bruise in my bicep because that’s where...
Go-go boots clattered across the tarmac as a group of young women scrambled into place at Dallas’s Love Field airport. The boss wanted a photograph. “Okay, girls,” said Lamar Muse, the president of Southwest Airlines. “Y’all smile.” It was 1971, and Southwest had...
Unisync Corp. yesterday announced that it has been selected by BC Ferries to manage their employee uniform program. This multi-year agreement represents the culmination of an extensive review of Unisync’s product quality and customer-focused suite of fulfillment...
Pennsylvania manufacturer Penn Emblem has always been about people. During the pandemic, the company donated masks to area non profits, and opened its heart to neighboring communities in need. Now it has taken on a new initiative: building a more inclusive workplace....
In a mild improvement over the previous month, the U.S. labor market added 559,000 jobs in May, according to Labor Department figures released last Friday. Economists had expected roughly 671,000 new jobs, a significant step up from April's disappointing 266,000. The...
Justin Wetherell works as a flight attendant and flight-attendant instructor for Alaska Airlines, based in Seattle. Wetherell does this wearing the airline’s uniform for male flight attendants: a men’s shirt, tie, a pair of men’s pants and men’s shoes. But they are...
During the pandemic year, oh-so-casual Zoom shirts leapfrogged corporate attire. Interest in the necktie—already waning in recent decades—was nearly extinguished. But now that roughly half of Americans have received at least one vaccination dose and more...
Engineers have developed the world's first digital fiber, capable of capturing, storing and analyzing a variety of data. The breakthrough technology, detailed last week in the journal Nature Communications, could be paired with machine learning algorithms and used to...
GT will relocate all corporate operations from a 31,000 square foot facility in Austin to a new, 70,000 square foot facility in Pflugerville. The site selection was based on the city’s positive business climate and accessibility to major highways. The distributor...
Collabs are so hot right now that Papa John's is getting a slice of the action with the launch of its Papa X Cheddar collaboration. The first food meets fashion collaboration of its kind, the pizza giant has satirically chosen to collaborate with one of the world's...
