Black Friday: Walmart Spies On Workers As Fight For 15 Continues
Today is Black Friday and retail giant Walmart is again dealing with a series of protests and worker strikes over the company’s unwillingness to provide its workers a living wage and benefits. This year the protests are paralleled by a week long drive to get Walmart workers food for the
Is Your Halloween Candy Made With Child Slave Labor? (VIDEO)
The real toxic ingredient in Halloween candy isn’t secret poison, razor blades or illicit drugs, but child slave labor.
Racism And The Cruelty Of Affluence With Tim Wise (VIDEO)
Tim Wise: “The development of the class structure in the United States has been, from the beginning, interwoven with the development of white supremacy. “
Walmart Stock Crashes After Company Pays Workers Slightly More
Did you need more proof that Walmart’s business model is based on screwing their workers?
Fight For 15: Minimum Wage Jobs No Longer Short Term
Though many Americans may still be under the impression that those working minimum wage jobs are just young people in their first job, evidence continues to show that a sizable and increasing portion of the minimum wage workforce are over 40 and staying in the “entry level” jobs for years.
Toys ‘R’ Us Misuses H-1B Temporary Foreign Worker Visas To Outsource Jobs
Toys ‘R’ Us, and other major corporations, are misusing the H-1B Visa program to train foreign workers then fire Americans when those jobs move overseas.
‘The Personal Is Political’: Sustaining Communities Of Resistance (Reader Response)
Comrade Chompsky, Shadowproof Reader: A couple of months ago I placed an ad in Craigslist, seeking shared housing. In itself, this is unremarkable; what makes this one different, is the character of the ad. Entitled “Lifelong Activist Seeks Permanent Share,” it has produced some interesting responses — and frames some of the issues activists must face.
Wal-Mart To Reopen Stores At Center Of Labor Complaint
In April, Wal-Mart was the subject of a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after Wal-Mart closed five stores, including one where workers had been fighting for higher wages and benefits and working with a union. Last Week, Wal-Mart announced plans to reopen the stores in late October or early November, but former workers will be forced to reapply.
Walmart Increased Wages Only To Later Cut Hours
Late last year, in response to a series of strikes by workers and protests by activists, Walmart agreed to raise wages so that many of the company’s workers received at least a meager $9 an hour in 2015. Unfortunately, Walmart’s entire business model is based on severely exploiting workers in the US, so the order has now come down from Walmart executives to cut workers’ hours to lower company costs.
CEO Compensation Jumped In 2014 As Workers Treaded Water
The pay for CEOs of public companies continued its upward climb in 2014 according to a report by The Conference Board, a business research organization. The report, published in August, claims that total compensation for chief executive officers of US public companies in the Russell 3000 Index rose up 11.9 % from 2013 and as much as 34.7 % from 2010.