News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
Nov. 22 will mark 13,439 days of incarceration for Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. This year’s commemoration of the National Day of Mourning, to be held in Plymouth, Mass., will once again honor Peltier, a hero-in-the-struggle who has been unjustly… Read More ›
Wal-Mart faced not only a throng of shoppers on Black Friday but what a union-backed group said was the biggest wave of protests that the retailer had ever seen, a contention the company disputed. The group, OUR Walmart, said there were protests at… Read More ›
By Yana Kunichoff, Truthout Black Friday’s shopping bonanza brings people out to line up in front of stores for hours before it begins. It has trampled people, but not profits for companies that reap a large chunk of their annual sales on the day… Read More ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, November 2, 2012 CONTACT: Jorge Amaro, 202-412 4998, jamaro(at)ufcw.org Joining Nationwide Strikes at Nation’s Largest Retailer, Richmond Walmart Workers Demonstrate Sit-In inside Store, Then Walk Off the Job As Walmart Supercenter Holds Grand Re-Opening, Workers and… Read More ›
By Libby Anne The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later… Read More ›
Hurricane Sandy is not turning into a political windfall for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Not only did Romney’s buddy New Jersey Governor Chris Christie go and call President Obama a “great leader” for his storm response but now some… Read More ›
By Arturo Garcia The American Family Association (AFA) emailed members urging them to keep their children out of school during an anti-bullying event organized by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). According to The New York Times, the evangelical group’s… Read More ›
The prominent Native American activist Russell Means passed away on Monday. In 2008 he met with RT to talk about the Native Americans withdrawal from the US, their fight for recognition and his unhappiness with US citizenship. At the end… Read More ›
By Gilbert Mercier NEWS JUNKIE POST According to a report released today by the National Center on Homelessness, more than 1.6 million children are currently homeless in America. This amounts to one child in 45. It represents a dramatic increase… Read More ›
The number of Americans going to the government for assistance has once again hit a new high. More than 46 million Americans are now enrolled in the federal welfare food stamps system, more than double the amount from only a… Read More ›
By Harry Bradford Employees at 28 Walmarts in 12 different cities walked out of work Tuesday, but things may get a whole lot worse for the biggest retailer in the U.S. come Black Friday. United Food and Commercial Workers’ Making… Read More ›
By Travis Waldron When local activist groups challenged Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to live on a food stamp budget for a week to mark Hunger Awareness Month, he took them up on the offer and found out just how hard… Read More ›
We are all familiar with the organizer who organizer who organizes for the sake of organizing, with the politics which prioritizes tactical success in immediate daily work, while paying sterile lip service to an ultimate goal which is hardly taken… Read More ›
Google is going to take over the world. They are now offering loans up to $10k to businesses that want to invest in their Adwords program; they’re going to launch in the UK first and then branch out in a… Read More ›
By Eric W. Dolan David Siegel, the founder and CEO of Westgate Resorts, on Monday sent a letter to his 7000 employees warning that the company would be downsized if President Barack Obama was elected to a second term. Siegal,… Read More ›
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