Andrea Dehlendorf & Michelle Miller
Stanford Social Innovation Review
To rebalance our democracy and economy, a real system of economic checks and balances must exist to ensure that working people have power in their workplaces.
"We value Walmart and our fellow associates, but we are no longer willing to contribute our labor to a company that profits from the sale of deadly weapons."
Keahn Morris and John Bolesta
Labor & Employment Law Blog
This article is from a corporate law firm, but it offers a concise summary of last weeks decision by the NLRB to roll back the rights of workers to engage in protected concerted activity.
Workers are organizing at unprecedented rates along the border — in Mexico. Since January, thousands of factory workers have been striking for higher wages in Mexican border cities, home to hundreds of factories run by US companies and subcontractors
Walmart workers will not be charged interest if they opt to obtain their wages in advance. But getting paid early, while it may solve an emergency cash shortage, will leave the workers with less money on payday.
I wasn’t allowed to leave work to be with my mom when she died, and I know of other Walmart workers who can tell similar stories. Here's what you can do to help us.
The giant retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark., said in a statement that it would shutter 154 stores in the United States, or about 3 percent of its locations, as well as 115 stores overseas.
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